Defying administration threats to veto the bill, Sen. Bob Corker (R – TN), the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, intends to move forward with a bill aimed at giving Congress the power to stop any nuclear deal with Iran.
Sen. Corker says the plan is to begin committee mark-up of the legislation on either Tuesday or Wednesday of next week, with a hope of getting the bill done by March 25.
The timing is because of a soft deadline set by international negotiators for a framework for the final nuclear deal with Iran on Wednesday, with Corker hoping to preempt this.
Sen. Corker conceded that it is all but impossible for the bill to actually get to the Senate floor before the Easter break. Making any progress at all would bring the issue once again to the fore, and ideally to sabotage the talks.
While most of the Senate Republicans are in favor of anything that would kill the talks, getting a veto-proof majority is likely to be difficult. Still, a handful of Democrats have said they will support such a bill.
16 US Intelligence Agencies still say that Iran IS NOT working on nuclear weapons. Are the 47 Senators crazy, retarded and all paid by Israel ?
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It's obvious that most GOP's and many Dems are more loyal to Israel than they are to the US. It may not technically be treason as we are not at war with Israel (yet) but it certainly does constitute disloyalty.
Is Obama really trying to make peace with Iran while starting a war with Russia? How do we explain the tension between a war mongering Administration and a war mongering Congress? A pox on both their houses!