Showing posts with label Iran Nuclear Deal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iran Nuclear Deal. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Iran Nuclear Deal’s Fate In Congress Rests With Undecided Democrats

By Mike DeBonis, Aug 03, 2015 Washington Post

Before he served as a U.S. senator, before he ran Delaware’s largest county, Christopher A. Coons was a corporate lawyer, reviewing contracts and business proposals for W.L. Gore & Associates.

The eye he once brought to sales agreements for Gore-Tex fabric he is bringing — a decade later — to the United States’ most scrutinized diplomatic accord in a generation: the Iran nuclear deal.

“Your training and your role as a lawyer is not to be the wedding-day guy but to be the divorce-day guy,” Coons, a Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said this past month. “Your job is to read it through as closely as you can . . . because no one ever pulls that document out unless there’s a problem.”

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Monday, August 3, 2015

Parties Fear An August Surprise

By Cristina Marcost, Aug 02, 2015 The Hill

Beware the ides of August.

Congress’s summer recess is supposed to be a quiet time that gives lawmakers a chance to meet with constituents, raise money and maybe get a little rest.  

Yet nearly every year, a controversy erupts that shakes the political landscape, at times causing problems for Republicans and Democrats alike.

The most famous example came in 2009, when Tea Party activists confronted lawmakers at town halls over their consideration of ObamaCare.

While that political heat mostly burned Democrats, Republicans faced an uprising of their own in 2013, when constituents demanded that they defund the healthcare law. That campaign culminated in the first government shutdown in 17 years.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

House Intelligence Chairman: Deal Paves Way for Iranian Bomb

By Eli Lake, July 13, 2015 Bloomberg View

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says the historic Iran nuclear deal reached in Vienna Tuesday will secure Iran's pathway to a bomb and add to its capability to terrorize the West and the Middle East.

Representative Devin Nunes, a California Republican, told me Tuesday that President Barack Obama was incorrect in asserting that the nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers will keep Iran from becoming a nuclear-armed state.

"I don’t know what information the Obama administration possesses that indicates this deal will actually prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon or will cause the mullahs to reduce their support for worldwide terrorism, but it sure isn’t the same intelligence we’re seeing in the Intelligence Committee," he said. "Iran has killed hundreds of U.S. soldiers, tried to conduct a terrorist attack in the United States, and is committed to annihilating Israel. This deal will guarantee Iran the capability to carry out its clear intent."  

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