{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://price.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/representatives-price-and-deutch-lead-letter-president-trump-regarding-iran", "Representatives Price and Deutch Lead Letter to President Trump Regarding Iran Nuclear Agreement", "2017-10-04", "2017", "2017-10", "Democrat", "House", "NC", "David Price", "P000523", "price.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0 (Oct. 4, 2017) \u2013 On Wednesday, October 4, Representatives David Price (D-NC) and Ted Deutch (D-FL) will send a letter to President Trump signed by more than 180 Members of Congress, including the entire House Democratic Leadership, urging the President to recertify Iran\u2019s compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Announced in July of 2015, the JCPOA is an international agreement negotiated by the \u201cP5+1\u201d (United States, China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and Germany), the European Union, and Iran that sought to cut off Iran\u2019s path to nuclear weapons capability.\nThe letter comes in response to recent suggestions by President Trump that the administration may withhold certification of Iran\u2019s compliance with the JCPOA, which must be re-certified every three months under the terms of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA).\u00a0 INARA also requires the President to provide Congress with credible evidence of Iranian noncompliance, should violations of the JCPOA occur.\u00a0 No such evidence has been provided to Congress to-date, and the International Atomic Energy Agency, U.S. military and intelligence officials, and U.S. allies have indicated that Iran remains in technical compliance with the agreement.\n\u201cFor more than two years, the JCPOA has realized its objective of constraining Iran\u2019s nuclear program to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran,\u201d said Congressman Price. \u201cWithout ironclad evidence of Iranian violations of the agreement, withholding Iran\u2019s certification of JCPOA compliance would jeopardize our national security, harm our international relationships, and embolden Iran. We urge the President to heed the advice of his military and intelligence advisors rather than play politics with national security.\u201d\n\u201cWe forced Iran to the negotiating table in the first place because of the multilateral sanctions imposed on Iran by the U.S. and our global partners,\u201d said Congressman Deutch. \u201cNow, we need the help of this international coalition to keep up the pressure on Iran for its other malign activities outside of the JCPOA \u2013 its support for terrorism, its gross human rights violations, and its ballistic missile weapons program. If President Trump decertifies Iranian compliance without clear evidence of Iranian violations, it will jeopardize this united front against Iran. The JCPOA is an imperfect agreement, but to address the problematic provisions including the sunset clauses, we will need stay in lockstep with our global partners.\u201d\nIn the letter, the Representatives emphasize that withholding certification without credible evidence of a material breach on the part of Iran would threaten national security, isolate the U.S. from our international partners and allies, and undermine efforts to defuse the nuclear crisis with North Korea. \u201cAbsent credible and accurate information confirming a material breach, we are concerned that withholding certification of Iran\u2019s compliance or walking away from the JCPOA would harm our alliances, embolden Iran, and threaten U.S. national security. We are further concerned that non-certification based on justifications beyond the scope of the nuclear agreement would threaten global non-proliferation efforts and send exactly the wrong message to North Korea at the moment we are trying to diplomatically defuse that crisis.\u201d\nThe full text of the letter can be viewed here.\nSignatories include the following Members of the U.S. House of Representatives:\nAdams, Alma\nAguilar, Pete\nBarragan, Nanette Diaz\nBass, Karen\nBeatty, Joyce\nBera, Ami\nBeyer Jr., Donald S.\nBishop, Jr., Sanford D.\nBlumenauer, Earl\nBlunt Rochester, Lisa\nBonamici, Suzanne\nBordallo, Madeleine Z.\nBrady, Robert\nBrown, Anthony\nBrownley, Julia\nBustos, Cheri\nButterfield, G.K.\nCapuano, Michael E.\nCarbajal, Salud O.\nC\u00e1rdenas, Tony\nCarson, Andre\nCartwright, Matt\nCastor, Kathy\nCastro, Joaquin\nChu, Judy\nCicilline, David N.\nClark, Katherine\nClarke, Yvette D.\nClay, William Lacy\nCleaver, II., Emanuel\nClyburn, James E.\nCohen, Steve\nColeman, Bonnie Watson\nConnolly, Gerald E.\nConyers, Jr., John\nCooper, Jim\nCosta, Jim\nCourtney, Joe\nCrist, Charlie\nCrowley, Joseph\nCuellar, Henry\nCummings, Elijah E.\nDavis, Danny K.\nDavis, Susan\nDeFazio, Peter A.\nDeGette, Diana\nDelaney, John K.\nDeLauro, Rosa L.\nDelBene, Suzan\nDemings, Val\nDeSaulnier, Mark\nDeutch, Ted\nDingell, Debbie\nDoggett, Lloyd\nDoyle, Mike\nEllison, Keith\nEngel, Eliot L.\nEshoo, Anna G.\nEspaillat, Adriano\nEsty, Elizabeth\nEvans, Dwight\nFoster, Bill\nFrankel, Lois\nFudge, Marcia L.\nGabbard, Tulsi\nGallego, Ruben\nGaramendi, John\nGomez, Jimmy\nGreen, Al\nGreen, Gene\nGrijalva, Raul M.\nGuti\u00e9rrez, Luis V.\nHanabusa, Colleen\nHastings, Alcee L.\nHeck, Denny\nHiggins, Brian\nHimes, Jim\nHoyer, Steny H.\nHuffman, Jared\nJackson Lee, Sheila\nJayapal, Pramila\nJeffries, Hakeem\nJohnson, Eddie Bernice\nJohnson, Hank\nKaptur, Marcy\nKeating, William R.\nKelly, Robin L.\nKennedy, III, Joseph P.\nKhanna, Ro\nKihuen, Ruben J.\nKildee, Dan\nKilmer, Derek\nKrishnamoorthi, Raja\nKuster, Ann McLane\nLangevin, Jim\nLarsen, Rick\nLarson, John\nLawrence, Brenda\nLawson, Alfred\nLee, Barbara\nLevin, Sander\nLewis, John\nLieu, Ted W.\nLoebsack, Dave\nLofgren, Zoe\nLowenthal, Alan\nLowey, Nita\nLujan Grisham, Michelle\nLuj\u00e1n, Ben Ray\nLynch, Stephen F.\nMaloney, Carolyn B.\nMaloney, Sean Patrick\nMatsui, Doris\nMcCollum, Betty\nMcEachin, A. 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