WarSclerotic

Can sponsors of the Iran Sanction bill reach two third of the US Senate to override Obama’s veto?.

Can sponsors of the Iran Sanction bill reach two third of the US Senate to override Obama’s veto?

WASHINGTON — Support among Senate members for a new sanctions bill against Iran has doubled since the measure was introduced last month.
50 senators across party lines now co-sponsor the Nuclear Weapons Free Iran Act of 2013, according to multiple Senate aides, who expect support to increase in the coming days. That amounts to half of all Senate members, just one shy of the number required for a bill to pass.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Robert Menendez introduced the bill just before Christmas with 25 co-sponsors.
If enacted, the bill would provide the president with a window of up to a year to negotiate a final settlement with Iran over its controversial nuclear program. Iran would also have to comply with an interim agreement forged between its government and the P5+1 powers— the US, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany— that effectively halts uranium enrichment and construction on its Arak plutonium reactor in exchange for modest sanctions relief.
Should Iran fail to meet either of these terms, new sanctions would trigger against the Iranian regime that would include harsh penalties for countries still importing Iranian oil, including US allies, requiring they cut at least 30 percent of their purchases within months of enactment.
‘Rhetoric aside, everyone can get something here,’ an aide told the Washington Post. ‘The administration gets up to a year of flexibility to negotiate, Iran gets its sanctions relief and Congress gets the insurance policy we’ve been seeking.’
In the House of Representatives, Republican leadership scheduled floor time for Iran legislation this month. Democratic whip Steny Hoyer and Republican majority leader Eric Cantor have jointly written a resolution framed in support of the Senate measure.

This entry was posted on January 9, 2014 at 6:34 AM and is filed under Uncategorized. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.