More key Senate Democrats are coming out against an immediate vote on Iran sanctions today, with Sen. Patty Murray (D – WA) and usually hawkish Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D – MA) both opposing a vote.
This puts much of the Senate leadership on the side of waiting, and allowing diplomacy with Iran to continue, and suggests that the Iran sanctions bill, aimed at violating the Iran deal and ending the talks, is less likely than ever to see a vote in the near term.
The momentum has been swinging that way for awhile now, and with the interim Iran deal now formally in place, the push to kill it seems to be losing some of its urgency, with less and less confidence that they can get a veto-proof majority at any rate.
The Iran sanctions have 58 co-sponsors and 59 committed supporters, but with President Obama promising a veto they’d need 67 yes votes to override, and despite heavy support from Israeli lobbying groups like AIPAC, those last votes don’t seem to be materializing.
Still, we have 59 senators looking out for the interest of a foreign country.
Now, now – I am sure that these fine folks also have the interests of their own little bank accounts that share in their affections.
Can you tell me where we can get the names of these 59 senators? I'd like to know if my senators are among them.
Here they are Frank. Call and tell them to vote against SB 1881:
http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/sena…
This is my third attempt at posting this info. Maybe antiwar.com has been hijacked by the same bunch that has hijacked the US Congress. Nothing surprises me anymore in that regard. 8-(
[moderator’s note: Or maybe all three tries got caught in our spam filters at the same time the guy who checks the spam filters had an hours-long Internet outage, so he’s just now getting to it and only posting this one. But probably not. It’s probably a conspiracy – TLK]
This http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/sena… looks like it may be the complete list of co-sponsors. (Via: http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-ea… )
All of those 59 traitorous senators who are up for re-election this year should be voted out of office. Any wishing to replace them should be required to make their views known.
I had not thought of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D – MA) as "usually hawkish." Given her popularity as a Progressive alternative, that seems important.
Perhaps you could give us an article on that. I'd like to see it. Thanks.
Google provides several articles that meet your request. Try "Elizabeth Warren hawk"