House lawmakers are lashing out at their Senate counterparts over the
upper chamber’s failure to pass tighter Iran sanctions before Congress
recesses.
With only two weeks left on the legislative calendar, congressional
insiders say that a new Iran sanctions measure currently under
consideration by the Senate is all but dead in the water.
Senate Democratic leaders appear poised to give in to White House
demands that no new sanctions be imposed on Iran for the rest of the
year and likely through most of 2014.
The two key avenues that senators could use to push through new
sanctions—the Senate Banking Committee and the annual defense
authorization bill—appear to have been shut down by the White House’s
Democratic allies.
The situation has proved frustrating to House lawmakers who
overwhelmingly voted months ago to approve a new Iran sanctions measure
only to see it stall in the Senate under White House pressure.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R., Minn.) described the congressional tug of
war as “reprehensible” and a “tragedy.” She urged her Senate colleagues
to stop taking marching orders from the White House when it comes to the
Iranian nuclear situation.
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Thursday, December 12, 2013
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