The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted down a resolution approving of the nuclear deal with Iran by a vote of 269-162. Twenty-five Democrats were among those disapproving the deal. A second resolution that would prevent President Barack Obama from lifting sanctions on Iran was subsequently passed. The Hill reported more: While the failure of...

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Many of the senators who support the nuclear deal with Iran, and who voted Thursday to filibuster and prevent an up-or-down vote, have made strong cases against the deal they advocate for, Mitchell Bard, executive director of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, observed in The Times of Israel Thursday. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said on...

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A Senate vote to end debate on the nuclear deal with Iran fell short of its required margin today, preventing a full vote to disapprove the deal itself. A bipartisan group of 58 senators voted to invoke cloture on debating the resolution, two short of the 60 votes required to pass. The remaining...

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Filibustering a vote on the Iran deal would be “unfair and unwise” and “contrary to the spirit of the Constitution,” former Senator Joseph Lieberman wrote in an op-ed (Google link) today in The Wall Street Journal. Lieberman called on Senate Democrats and the White House not to block a vote on the deal, which...

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Rep. Ted Lieu (D – Calif.), an Air Force veteran and a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, announced his opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran today in a detailed 23-page press release (.pdf). Lieu stated that his opposition to the deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan...

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Hillary Clinton promised that she would “act decisively” as president to ensure Iran did not violate the recent nuclear deal. The leading presidential candidate and former secretary of state told an audience at the Brookings Institution today that Iran will “want to see how far they can bend the rules,” but that she would “hold...

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Public support for the nuclear deal with Iran has dropped sharply from 33% to just 21% in two months’ time, according to a poll published yesterday by the Pew Research Center. In mid-July, a week after President Obama announced the deal, 33% of the public approved of the agreement, while...

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The Nobel Peace Prize-winning former First Minister of Northern Ireland and the former Prime Minister of Spain called on Congress to reject the nuclear deal with Iran in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Hill. David Trimble and Jose Maria Aznar argued that the deal, formally known as the Joint...

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Nearly three-quarters of Americans who support the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the nuclear deal with Iran is known, oppose an attempt in the Senate to filibuster the vote on the agreement, according to a new poll by Olive Tree Strategies that was released today. Overall, 56% of all respondents oppose...

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The United States gets “nothing but grief” from the nuclear deal with Iran, the former head of U.S. military intelligence said today. Lt. Gen. (ret.) Michael Flynn, who served as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2014, said in an interview published on the website Medium that the deal could...

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