Iran nuclear deal survives: Democrats block disapproval vote

[Valin]

AP:

ERICA WERNER and DEB RIECHMANN

Sept 10 2015

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Senate Democrats voted to uphold the hard-fought nuclear accord with Iran on Thursday, overcoming ferocious Republican opposition and delivering President Barack Obama a legacy-making victory on his top foreign policy priority.

 

A disapproval resolution for the agreement fell two votes short of the 60 needed to move forward in ther 100-memberchamberd as Democratic and independent senators banded together against it. Although House Republicans continued to pursue eleventh-hour strategies to derail the international accord, the outcome in the Senate guaranteed that the disapproval legislation would not reach Obama's desk.

 

As a result the nuclear deal will move forward unchecked by Congress, an improbable win by Obama in the face of unanimous opposition from Republicans who control Congress, Republ9ican candidates seeking to replace him in the Oval Office and the state of Israel and its allied lobbyists in the U.S.

 

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[Draggingtree]

The Senate GOP’s Futile Protest Vote on the Nuclear Deal

By DANIEL LARISON • September 15, 2015, 11:31 AM

 

The Senate GOP has decided to hold its own feeble protest vote on the nuclear deal:

Senate Republicans will try a second time on Tuesday to move ahead on a resolution rejecting the Iran nuclear deal, and the outcome is expected to be the same: Democrats are poised to block the measure and preserve President Barack Obama’s foreign policy win.

 

This vote will be even more of an empty gesture than the last one, and it will reinforce the message that the Senate GOP is hostile to the successful results of U.S. diplomacy. Far from aiding their cause in next year’s elections, these theatrics are more likely to hurt Republican candidates in the purple and blue states that give the party their current Senate majority. As the report says, the GOP is hoping “to make political points against Democrats and in future Senate races,” but in the Senate races where control of the chamber is likely to be decided this tactic probably won’t work.

 

There are a number of potentially vulnerable Republican incumbents up for re-election next year in Illinois, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania that were first elected

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-senate-gops-futile-protest-vote-on-the-nuclear-deal/