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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans move toward Iran deal showdown with White House
Source: Reuters
Housing | Thu Jan 7, 2016 2:05pm EST
Republicans move toward Iran deal showdown with White House
WASHINGTON | BY PATRICIA ZENGERLE
Legislation that could undermine the international nuclear deal with Iran cleared a U.S. congressional panel on Thursday, setting up a potential showdown over one of President Barack Obama's signature foreign policy initiatives.
The Republican-led Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives approved the measure by a voice vote that appeared to be along party lines, setting it up for consideration by the full House.
Opponents say the "Iran Terror Finance Transparency Act," which would increase lawmakers' oversight of the Iran agreement announced in July, is an attempt by Republicans to violate terms of the landmark deal with new legislation because they could not muster enough opposition to scuttle it last year.
Republicans said the measure would hold the Democratic administration to its commitment not to ease pressure on Iran's support for terrorism or its ballistic missile program.
Several committee Democrats, including some who opposed the nuclear deal last summer, vehemently objected to the measure.
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Republicans move toward Iran deal showdown with White House
WASHINGTON | BY PATRICIA ZENGERLE
Legislation that could undermine the international nuclear deal with Iran cleared a U.S. congressional panel on Thursday, setting up a potential showdown over one of President Barack Obama's signature foreign policy initiatives.
The Republican-led Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives approved the measure by a voice vote that appeared to be along party lines, setting it up for consideration by the full House.
Opponents say the "Iran Terror Finance Transparency Act," which would increase lawmakers' oversight of the Iran agreement announced in July, is an attempt by Republicans to violate terms of the landmark deal with new legislation because they could not muster enough opposition to scuttle it last year.
Republicans said the measure would hold the Democratic administration to its commitment not to ease pressure on Iran's support for terrorism or its ballistic missile program.
Several committee Democrats, including some who opposed the nuclear deal last summer, vehemently objected to the measure.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa-congress-idUSKBN0UL29K20160107
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Eugene
Jan 2016
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spanone
(135,819 posts)1. republicans disgust me.
randys1
(16,286 posts)2. They want failure for Obama and they wouldnt mind, at all, some death here and there
if they can blame it on Obama.
I dont know which enemy this country has faced is greater, Hitler or the modern GOP.
Hitler never actually made it to our soil, that we know of, so an argument can be made the GOP is.
woodsprite
(11,911 posts)3. Brought to us by Netanyahu. n/t