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D.
R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor |
Will a Senate Minority Endorse That Deal With Iran?
July 19, 2015 -- Now that Washington and Tehran have reached agreement on a deal that, as LPR sees it, will anable Iran to join the nuclear arms club, will the United States Senate approve the agreement? Under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, the president "shall have the power, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the senators present concur...." This meant, previously, that in a Senate composed of 100 senators, it would take 67 affirmative votes to ratify a treaty. For the Iran deal, however, the Constitution's treaty requirements have been turned upside-down. For the Iran deal to be rejected, it will take 67 senators to vote against the agreement. |
To LPR's knowledge, Republicans have not made it clear to the American people that President Obama can get his nuclear agreement with Iran with the support of merely 34 of the 100 members of the United States Senate. Is this any way to carry out representative government in a Republic? LPR does not discount the possibility that, if the agreement comes into effect, in Iran it will be greeted with thunderous cries of "Death to America; Death to Israel." |
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