The House of Representatives has voted today on the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, rejecting the bill 162-249. The vote has no practical impact, as the Senate failed in a cloture vote yesterday, and subsequently will not be passing a resolution on the pact before the deadline.
The 60-day deadline for Congressional review of the deal expires on Thursday, and the House vote is yet another failure, since they failed again to get a veto-proof majority needed to override a promised presidential veto.
The House is also planning to pass another resolution which will forbid the president from lifting any sanctions on Iran until after the 2017 inauguration. This would effectively prevent the US from abiding by the Iran deal, though there has been no indication the Senate will address this attempt, and again it probably won’t get a veto-proof majority.
Beyond that, House Republicans are also talking about filing a lawsuit trying to get the court to forbid the US from complying with the Iran deal on the grounds that the White House never provided them with copies of confidential IAEA deals with Iran. This too seems a long-shot, but reflects the Congressional leaders’ determination, after losing the battle on blocking the deal, to keep trying to undermine it.
In sane nation I used to be all in favor of when members of the peoples house used to call out an overbearing Executive branch but to let the opposition gain upper hand is fn suicide because they are totaly fn nuts.
While Exevutive branch may seen out of congress ability to control forget influence, there is not an honorable person in either house and agter.911 they effectively signed away their Rights to Lehislate and appointed an Executive Branch Dictatorship.
Obama is a bloody bast… but no wheres near bloodthirst and down right homicidal as is Hillary who makees the GOP bomb bomb bomb squad look like decked out Queens in nurses uniforms at play in a little boys house of prostitution.
What is not going to happen is an independent Iran and eventually US and its allies of Middle east genocides will destroy any and all remnants of Persian cultural last and present.
They have too, that killing is their only known reason for existing leaves them no choice.
It is not wealth alone cuz they have that in abundance , it is the pure sadism of power they crave, the money is as if a tithe to their being a diety.
How is this 'symbolic'? Because Obama is going to overrule it with a veto?
And then what? The President may be able to start wars but the legislature in generally involved in ending them. Wouldn't want any President to 'come off' as a 'loser'.
I'd be dusting-off more centrifuges and putting the brakes on Euro business If I were the Iranians.
"How is this 'symbolic'?"
BOTH houses needed to pass the bill (basic civics) and then override an executive veto. Neither house was able to accumulate enough votes to override a veto, ergo, the House vote is irrelevant to the goal of defeating the agreement. Obama doesn't have to do anything as long as the Senate doesn't even vote which seems more and more likely.
But then the House of Reprobates has a history of performing symbolic and totally irrelevant theater. Too bad they don't put as much effort into actually doing something important and relevant to helping America progress.
And regardless of whether the US passes or defeats this agreement, the rest of the world is moving on and will (currently are, btw) implementing the agreement. If the US Congress should stumble on enough votes to pass and override a veto, the US will stand alone…again.
Just another political circus pony and dogie Bozo clown act .
And Boehner is the head Bozo, just as he was when he tried to show Obama up by inviting Nuttyyahoo to address congress.
The house turds think the tea leaves say Israel,but they really to hell with them ,purge the traitors within.
The Israeli government in Washington never misses an opportunity to betray our national interests for their home country.
"Too bad they don't put as much effort into actually doing something important and relevant to helping America progress."
That would mean defying AIPAC and that just isn't something that is going to happen.
To make THE happy, they need to have passed this SYMBOLIC vote to show that they are there for THE SYMBOLS of AIPAC. It is time for Obama and his justice department to illegitimatizing this organization which have brought nothing but disasters for America and American working people.
Come election time next year, when the Iran treaty is working and those 'evil' people haven't built a nuke, I hope the American voters remember who stood up for this country and who stood up for Israel instead.