Whip count: Where the Senate stands on the Iran deal (Menendez is only Dem leaning no so far)

The Washington Post ^ | July 14 at 4:55 PM | Amber Phillips

[Dave346]

Current state of play

Yes or leaning yes (34 needed to uphold veto, keep the deal): 24

No or leaning no (67 needed to override veto, kill the deal): 48

Unknown/unclear: 28

And now, the 100 senators ...

Yes (1)

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)

Clearly leaning yes, reserving final judgment (12)

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.)

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.)

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)

Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.)

Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.)

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.)

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.)

Leaning yes, but hesitant (11)

Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.):

Sen. Angus King (I-Maine)

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.)

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.)

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.)

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii)

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.)

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii)

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.)

Purely undecided (7)

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.)

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.)

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)

Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.)

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.)

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.)

Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.)

Leaning no (35)

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.)

No (13)

Unknown / Unclear (21)

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)

Sen Cory Booker (D-N.J.)

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.)

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.)

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.)

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.)

Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.)

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.)

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.)

[montag813]

Can someone please explain why the Congress has to pass anything at all? By what authority can the president release assets that have been frozen since 1979? Wouldn’t Congress have to pass a bill to enable such a move?

[molson209]

There is No ,”NO Vote” Congress remove the No Vote when they passed that Bill a while back

[kaehurowing]

Can’t someone file a lawsuit to declare the “treaty” and the Senate procedure unlawful, as violating the Treaty Power?

[Myrddin]

Boehner and McConnell agreed to a bill that essentially inverts the normal order. Instead of a two-thirds majority to ratify, they must pass a bill to not-ratify. Said bill is then easily overturned with a veto. Voila! A defacto ratification that only a 2/3rds majority of both houses can overturn by overturning the veto. Stupid on steroids. That's the bone headed "leadership" of the GOP.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

America is FINISHED. Israel too. Estrogen has seeped into the brains of men who've now become GUTLESS, IDEALISTIC and DELUSIONAL. We deserve what we get and Iran/China/Russia will ensure that we DO get it but it'll be too late.

The China/Russia/Iran alliance got a huge victory today. We are helpless midgets compared to these three.

[Menehune56]

Can’t someone file a lawsuit to declare the “treaty” and the Senate procedure unlawful, as violating the Treaty Power?

The Corker Bill took care of all that. Now the Pubs can safely be against the treaty since there's no way it will be rejected enough without Democrat votes to override Obama. They were for it before they were against it. Totally disgusting.

[cripplecreek]

I don’t know who the Jewish democrat congressman is who was on FOX tonight but he was brutal. He said Obama has a record of nothing but foreign policy failures and this is the worst of them all.

[P-Marlowe]

Since when is a treaty subject to a 1/3 or less approval?

How is this arrangement in any way constitutional?

[Carry_Okie]

The Corker Bill took care of all that.

By what authority?

[Fightin Whitey]

The problem is that this isn’t in any way America anymore.

[P-Marlowe]

It might be time to march on Washington with pitchforks, torches, tar and feather. If that doesn’t work, then.....

[ilgipper]

I cannot fathom an explanation why these idiots would do that. I seriously hate the GOP more than the Democrats and I believe today’s democrats are satan on earth.

[WENDLE]

Why did Corker/McConnell/Cornyn agree to change this treaty to a 1/3rd approval vote from the constitutional 2/3 absolute ratification requirement in MAY of this year? UCMTU!! Are they stupid or just globalist traitors to the constitution?

[Political Junkie Too]

The Corker bill *might* address the lifting of sanctions, but it cannot supercede the ratification of treaties. Obama and McConnell are trying to avoid calling this a treaty, but the problem is that it quacks like a treaty and Obama is comparing it to past treaties.

A Senator could sue on the ground that it harms his power to advise and consent, and states could sue on the grounds that it violates their representation in the Senate to advise and consent.

There is a reason why advice and consent is a Senate-only power - because it required the permission of the states. But we now have a rogue Senate that no longer represents states' interests. The Senate now represents partisan ideological global interests.

-PJ

[demshateGod]

By the authority of a law the Republicans passed in April stating that Obama gets his deal unless his veto can be overridden.

[demshateGod]

The Uniparty’s authority given them by the Lesser of Two Evils voters. They nullified the senate treaty power because they can and we'll keep voting for them. Cruz voted for it too.

[demshateGod]

Only one senator voted against it. Tom Cotton.

[demshateGod]

Don’t stop with those guys. You forgot Lee, Sessions, Paul, Rubio and..... Cruz.

[RockyTx]

as far as I can tell,
the sanctions are ‘executive orders’,
that Obama could change with the stroke of a pen.

or not.
this is all I can find.
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/iran.txt

if you have something,
please post it
please be as specific as you can be.

the reason Congress can’t stop the lifting of sanctions,
is that the sanctions did not
come from Congress.