Before the vote, House lawmakers passed two resolutions rebuking Obama on the deal.
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“Never in our history has something with so many consequences for our national security been rammed through with such little support“, he said. It can be stopped just like President Barack Obama’s immigration deal was blocked from going forward. In fact, just days after Obama announced the deal, the California Democrat said her caucus would be able to uphold a presidential veto of GOP legislation aimed at killing the agreement, which effectively guaranteed its survival.
Though Friday’s House votes can not impede the president from implementing the deal, opponents of the agreement touted the votes as a victory, pointing out that bipartisan majorities in both chambers have rejected the accord. “Sadly, the President’s agreement moves in the opposite direction, giving Iran more power to isolate itself from global inspectors and bankrolling the regime’s efforts to produce a nuclear weapon”, he said. The accord aims to constrain Iran’s nuclear ambitions in exchange for hundreds of billions of dollars in relief from global sanctions.
House Republicans will continue on Friday to further eleventh-hour strategies to derail the agreement and Senate Republicans are promising a re-vote.
In blocking the Iran nuclear deal, the House Republicans asserted that the agreement will only empower the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism. The bill was introduced by Mr. Zeldin and Peter Roksam of Illinois on Wednesday night, and will be voted on in the House on Friday.
With Republicans running out of ways to stop the looming Iran nuclear deal from becoming a reality, John Boehner is entertaining the idea of suing President Obama. Twenty-five Democrats joined the entire Republican caucus in disapproval.
During a recent visit to Alexandria, Abraham said he knows it will be hard to get the two-thirds vote needed in each house, especially in the Senate, to override a threatened veto by Obama. They’ve publicly considered, or at least refused to rule out, options ranging from pinning their hopes on a judge granting an injunction to keep the administration from acting to tying up the funding that goes toward the agency operating inspections of Iran’s nuclear sites in the fight over government funding.
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Meanwhile, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Ayatollah Khamenei said Israel will cease to exist within 25 years and in the meantime, it won’t have a moment’s respite. The House measures could come up in the Senate next week, but would face a filibuster by Senate Democrats and September 17 – the date slated for the close of congressional review of the deal – is less than a week away.
