Senate Easily Passes Iran Nuclear Bill

[Purveyor]

Source: New York Times

By JENNIFER STEINHAUERMAY 7, 2015

WASHINGTON — A bill that would give Congress a voice in any nuclear agreement between world powers and Iran passed the Senate overwhelmingly Thursday afternoon.

The measure withstood months of tense negotiations, White House resistance, the indictment of one of its sponsors and a massive partisan kerfuffle over a speech to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just as an accord was coming together.

Republican infighting prevented a debate of significant amendments to the bill, leaving some members deeply unhappy that they were unable to weigh in further on a matter that many said was the most significant of their careers. But in the end, a bipartisan accord that seemed nearly impossible in the upper chamber just a few months ago came together by a convincing margin.

“Let me be clear,” Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, said on the Senate floor Thursday, as he encouraged senators to approve the bill while noting the procedural fights that hobbled the process. “Our response to this should not be to give the American people no say at all,” adding, “Make no mistake that will this not be the end of the story.”

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[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. “Make no mistake that will this not be the end of the story.”

I know.

There's going to be LOTS of whining and crying by Republicans over the loss of something to fear.

[BayouBengal07]

2. So is this an executive action or a treaty?

First they send a letter to Iran's leadership warning that the deal is a "mere" executive agreement; then, frustrated with their inability to scuttle what they admit is presidential prerogative, they decide to pass legislation strapping treaty-like review requirements on it? Which is it, an executive agreement or a treaty?

[Fred Sanders]

5. It is an international agreement between nations.....so it is neither. And very little has changed

with this face-saving bill Obama will sign.

[karynnj]

10. An executive agreement with the US and 5 other countries - all the permanent members

of the UN security council.

The 47 ignored the international component. If Iran is abiding by the agreement, there is nothing even Ted Cruz could do to eliminate the agreement. He can't put the sanctions back together internationally.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Obam Wins! The passed bill essentially gives Congress exactly the same power it had before...but

please do not tell The Media, let them spin it as an "Obama loss", their Game Show, self-serving , simplistic, Twitter-fed mentality makes the predictable and shallow response inevitable.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

6. Exactly...

... eom.

[yallerdawg]

4. When we elected President Obama...

didn't we have a say?

The psychotic hubris of Republicans to think only their opinion matters in our democracy explains everything wrong in Washington DC.

They disrespect all of us, and the president most of all.

[tjl148]

8. 98-1

This bill will change nothing but with a 98-1 vote it is hardly "the psychotic hubris of Republicans."

[yallerdawg]

9. McConnell says:

“Our response to this should not be to give the American people no say at all."

This bill was totally unnecessary. This was all Republicans and their leader Netanyahu. Our duly elected president and executive branch could very well handle this issue along with all the other countries involved, the president does represent Republicans, too.

[lsewpershad]

7. Do they feel the same

about TPP or they want to give the Administration and their corporate buddies a free hand.

[Fred Sanders]

11. Yawn.... All those corporate buddies of.......Obama? You made me laugh!