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by Rosie Gray
November 19, 2014
“Unless the White House genuinely engages with Congress, we see no way that any agreement consisting of your administration’s current proposals to Iran will endure in the 114th Congress and after your presidential term ends.”
WASHINGTON — Forty-three Republican senators sent a letter to the White House Wednesday night warning President Obama not to bypass Congress as the administration nears the deadline for a nuclear deal with Iran.
Sens. Marco Rubio and Mark Kirk wrote the letter, which is signed by every Republican senator who co-sponsored Kirk’s and Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s Iran sanctions legislation. That bill, co-authored by Menendez and Kirk, was prevented from coming to a vote by Democratic leadership earlier this year. No Democratic senators signed this letter, which was obtained by BuzzFeed News on Wednesday evening. Sen. Mitch McConnell, who will become the Majority Leader of the new Congress, is among those who signed the letter.
The letter heralds the stiff opposition that Obama will face from the new Republican-majority Senate if his administration signs a deal with Iran next week that they consider bad. Major world powers are in Vienna this week negotiating with Iran to try to reach a deal that would stop the country from developing nuclear weapons. The administration has been looking for ways that it could bypass Congress if a deal is struck……
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