A skeptical Congress to weigh Iran nuclear talks' extension
The Obama administration is trying to sell Congress on a four-month extension of nuclear talks with Iran, but it looks like Republicans aren't buying.
President Obama is dispatching his top Iran negotiator and sanctions expert to Congress next week to try to sell a four-month extension of nuclear talks.
Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman and David Cohen, Treasury’s undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, are slated to testify in open hearings before the Senate and House foreign affairs panels on Tuesday. They can expect a harsh reception.
“I don’t see an extension of funding to Iran as progress,” House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., said in a statement announcing the hearing. “Everything about Iran’s nuclear program signals ‘nuclear bomb,’ yesterday, today and, I worry, tomorrow.”
Already, Senate Republicans have reacted to the extension by introducing a flurry of bills.
