Posted on 03/11/2015 2:26:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Republicans who control Congress on Wednesday they would not be able to modify any nuclear agreement struck between the United States and Iran.
Kerry said he responded with "utter disbelief" to an open letter to Iran on Monday signed only by Republican senators that said any deal would only last as long as U.S. President Barack Obama, a Democrat, remains in office.
"When it says that Congress could actually modify the terms of an agreement at any time is flat wrong," Kerry, who has been negotiating a deal to rein in Iran's nuclear program in exchange for easing sanctions, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "You don't have the right to modify an agreement reached executive to executive between leaders of a country."
But Sen. Rand Paul, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016, told Kerry that any deal would need approval by Congress if it affected U.S. sanctions against Iran. Paul accused the Obama administration of trying to bypass Congress.
"The letter was to Iran but it should've been cc' d to the White House because the White House needs to understand that any agreement that removes or changes legislation will have to be passed by us," the senator said....
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
His Iranian wife tells him that.
Kerry is wrong ... because it can be voted down completely and totally, unless something is changed in the agreement ... IF that is what is specified by the Senate! Otherwise the whole thing can go down!
Kerry had better go dig out his junior high school civics book He doesn’t appear to have the slightest notion of how our government works. ( or else he does, and is just playing his part in the obama Big Lie campaign )
Cannot or will not? This congress doesn’t have the will to stop them. So in a sense he is right.
the latter, I’m sure.
He’s wrong in theory ... that’s absolute. But ... as far as “in practice”, that can be debated.
sure we canand then declare war on Iran.
A former US Senator that does not understand “Advice and Consent” and that TREATIES require a 2/3 vote of the Senate to ratify. Now if Obama merely does and EXECUTIVE ORDER as i suspect is the plan. Well then John, the next POTUS can merely write a new EO overiding Odumble.
Freegards
LEX
So decreeth the King.
Kerry talks about a “deal” or an “agreement.”
Hey, Jeankerri, the correct word is “treaty.” And it ain’t a treaty until the Senate confirms it.
Kerry’s wife is of Portuguese heritage, who was born in one African nation, but grew up in South Africa.
That means we could tear the Iran Nuclear Deal to Shreds if we want.
FReeper GrandJediMasterYoda: No Guns for Americans, But Iran can have Nukes.
you know.............. EVEN WORSE than now..
I know he is wrong, yet with what has been going on with this congress of late I am not surprised he said it.
It’s the latter.
” The letter was an unusual intervention by lawmakers into foreign policy, which is mainly the responsibility of the president’s administration.”
in a failed administration such as this , one which has become a blatant provocateur of international unrest and U.S. instability , desperate measures are required .
Dear John,
Follow me on this one... Advice and Consent. This means the Senate is part of the negotiations (advice) and has the final word on the agreement (consent).
This has been your Constitutional moment.
Horse-face’s horse-faced daughter is married to an iranian.
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