Bipartisan Deal in Place, Congress Prepares to Flex Its Muscle on Iran
Key senators said Tuesday they have agreed on terms for bipartisan legislation that would give Congress the power to review and possibly overturn a potential nuclear deal with Iran that could be struck in the coming months by President Obama and America’s foreign allies.
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), its ranking member, said they have agreed on a package of changes that would establish a procedure for an orderly congressional review of the deal while softening provisions that the Obama administration and Democrats on Capitol Hill say could derail negotiations.
“I think this is a really sound piece of legislation, I’m really proud of it, and it’s my hope that it will pass overwhelmingly . . . and then we’ll move to the floor and we’ll be able to generate a veto-proof majority,” Corker said Tuesday after emerging from a closed-door morning briefing given by Secretary of State John F. Kerry, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and other administration officials.
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