Congress' last hurrah before Iran vote
A look at the Middle East issues Congress will be addressing the week of Sept. 7.
Iran will once again be at the top of the foreign policy agenda this coming week as Congress returns from its monthlong summer break.
The House of Representatives is expected to begin debate on its resolution to reject the nuclear deal Sept. 9 and could vote by Sept. 11. Congress has until Sept. 17 to vote on a resolution of disapproval, which would bar President Barack Obama from lifting statutory sanctions.
“For weeks, Congress has learned of the numerous giveaways to the world’s leading state-sponsor of terrorism while supposed verification mechanisms have been exposed as dangerously insufficient,” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said in a statement. “With a clear majority of Congress and the American people lining up in opposition to this deal, the House will not approve this deal.”
Demonstrations and multimillion-dollar lobbying campaigns by pro-Israel groups throughout the summer largely failed to build enough opposition to kill the deal.
