After Senate Dems Score Win to Preserve Iran Deal, House GOP Votes Against it in Protest Motion
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Jackson Falconer
This article was last updated 9/12/15 at 10:00 p.m.
WASHINGTON – One day after the Obama administration's nuclear agreement with Iran was preserved by Senate Democrats, the deal faced another opposition vote against it Friday in Washington's other congressional chamber, as House Republicans called to hold votes against the deal on the 14th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in a protest vote that will not have an effect on stopping the deal.
The Senate challenge from Thursday was fought off in a narrow victory. A motion to consider a resolution rejecting the deal was 58 to 42, with 60 votes needed to enact the motion.
Following the vote, House Majority Leader John Boehner told The Washington Post that a lawsuit is also a possibility to try to halt the deal from becoming final.
Republicans will "use every tool at our disposal to stop, slow and delay this agreement from being fully implemented,“ Boehner told the Post.
The most recent tool was a Thursday night vote to recognize that the majority of the House believes that the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act was violated by President Obama. That agreement, passed by Congress and signed by the president in May, requires that every detail of the nuclear deal be given to the legislative branch.
But the administration has noted that two side agreements of the deal–which Republicans have demanded to see–are confidential to everyone but the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran, who were the lone parties to those two side agreements.
Following the Thursday night vote, Boehner and his Republican colleagues will hold two votes on Friday. The first aims to retain sanctions that the White House, along with leadership from Germany, the U.K., Russia, China, France, and the E.U., agreed to remove in return for Iran agreeing to deplete its uranium and plutonium stockpiles for ten years, and shrink its number of centrifuges by two-thirds for fifteen years.
The second planned action is to bring up a resolution approving the deal, and then to reject it. Senate Republicans plan on making another motion to consider a resolution rejecting the deal on September 17 to see if at least two more votes can be secured if all else fails.
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