Adam Schiff

Mr. President, we are now in the second month of Trump's Iran war, and we have already, tragically, lost 13 servicemembers, including one—CW3 Robert Marzan—from my home State of California. We are now in the second month of Trump's Iran war, and more than 200 servicemembers have been injured, some very seriously.

Mr. President, I rise today to recognize the 100th anniversary of the Ohr Shalom Synagogue in San Diego, CA. The synagogue first opened its doors on May 14, 1926, and has served the Jewish Community in San Diego for 100 years. It was originally known as the Temple Beth Israel before being acquired by Ohr Shalom Synagogue in 2002. The building was designed by the notable architect William H. Wheeler and its architecture is a Mediterranean-Byzantine Revival style.

Mr. President, last Friday, public reports indicated that more than 2,500 marines stationed at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County were now on their way to the Trump war in the Middle East, the Trump- Iran war. This is the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard the USS Portland, the USS Comstock, and the USS Boxer. Their voyage joins the amphibious assault force aboard the USS Tripoli, which also called San Diego home until last year. With great uncertainty, Californians are now being called upon to be the potential tip of the next spear in this war.

Madam President, the author George Orwell wrote about a dystopian future in which the party in power spoke in doublespeak, a language in which up meant down and down meant up, good meant bad, and nothing was as it seemed. In the language of Orwellian doublespeak, to save something meant to destroy it, which brings me to the so-called SAVE America Act. This legislation will not save anything about America, but it will destroy something precious about this country.