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TBT: Cruz, Toomey file amendment to give Congress more power over Obama’s Iran deal
Ted Cruz Senate Office ^ | April 24, 2015 | Ted Cruz

Posted on 07/14/2015 7:49:35 AM PDT by MN_Mike

As currently written, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 would first require Congress to pass a resolution of disapproval and then require Congress to muster votes from two-thirds of each chamber to override a Presidential veto. What's more, if Congress failed to act within a set timeframe, the deal would go into effect by default. This process gets the Constitution's allocation of authority precisely backwards.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; iran; nuclear; senate
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To: MN_Mike
The bill passed the senate on a vote of 98 to 1, with Cotton being the only no vote.

Cruz voted against cloture, but voted for passage.

21 posted on 07/14/2015 8:12:32 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: MN_Mike
The amendment was after the fact. Here on FR, we were in cyber-war with Cruz supporters who were so sure Cruz would win in his deal with the devil. Besides that, Jeff Sessions was against the deal, and I was disappointed that Cruz didn't listen to who I thought was his Senate mentor.

I do wish Trump were doing the negotiating for the US. This is a big issue. A more experienced and less trusting Cruz in the US Senate for four or eight years of a Trump presidency might give the US a chance.

22 posted on 07/14/2015 8:17:56 AM PDT by grania
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To: MN_Mike

There is not one seated politician in DC that doesn’t have $h— on their hands!
Impeachment, is a word with no meaning in DC!
When Idiot stick, does not protect the United States and its principles, the cure is IMPEACHMENT!
This morning Idiot Stick and his suck-up MSM have been repeating “the Iranian Deal is great!”. That sounds a lot like “you can keep your doctor” and “the checks in the mail”.
I ill not vote for any person, that is now sitting in Congress, ever!


23 posted on 07/14/2015 8:18:14 AM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: PghBaldy

The Cruz statement is from April 24 - he DIDN’T wait.


24 posted on 07/14/2015 8:19:05 AM PDT by Tandem (What ever happened to personal responsibility & self-reliance?)
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To: BuffaloJack
Congress does have the right to approve treaties with a 2/3 vote. But Senate Republicans gave away the game through the Corker bill that now allows automatic approval agreement unless the House and Senate can come up with a veto-proof majority. That means the GOP would have to flip 14 Dem. Senators and 44 Dem House member. Good luck with that.

Gee, thanks, Corker - you idiot!

25 posted on 07/14/2015 8:28:14 AM PDT by CWW (Pray for God's Protection!)
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To: MN_Mike

Thanks. I was wrong.


26 posted on 07/14/2015 8:28:40 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: MN_Mike

Let’s cut to the chase. Israel will never allow Iran to build nuclear weapons. The rest is just theater for Obama’s “legacy” and fodder for technowar stories (now reading “Ghost Fleet”).


27 posted on 07/14/2015 8:28:43 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: MN_Mike
Don't blame the entire Republican Senate.

Only all but one of them are guilty of treason either by design or stupidity. Tom Cotton can't undo this by himself.

28 posted on 07/14/2015 8:29:05 AM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: PghBaldy
Why did Cruz etc wait till after it was agreed upon to do this?

Why indeed? The idea that you can do a thing and then deny you did it without penalty, only exists in DC.

One thing I learned many years ago by watching special orders on C-SPAN was when ever a speaker rose he always asked for unanimous Consent to revise and extend his remarks, even to include extraneous materials. That gives him the ability to say one thing on the floor and revise the record to show he said something entirely different, so recorded records are just so much bat dung.

29 posted on 07/14/2015 8:34:26 AM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: pleasenotcalifornia
A lot of Republicans supported McConnell. Hell, he won big. Many of us were fooled again.

No, you were not fooled. They put a dingbat democrat up against McConnell. What choice did you have in that election? Dumb or Dumber?

30 posted on 07/14/2015 8:41:37 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Philippians 2:10)
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To: MN_Mike

The other thread said only Sen. Tom Cotton voted against the Corker bill. Also a search of the Internet shows it was only Cotton who voted against the Corker bill.


31 posted on 07/14/2015 9:02:02 AM PDT by FR_addict (Boehner needs to go!)
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To: BuffaloJack

“I thought that only Congress could ratify treaties, not the President”

Well you would be right. Obama is and has been trying to call this Iran Nuclear Deal an Executive Agreement which does not require ratification. In actuality with 5 other countries in on the deal its a Treaty. The Senate should have insisted that its a Treaty and required ratification. Instead they too the coward’s way out and invented this convoluted legislation which waters down their ratification power and IMO is totally unconstitutional.


32 posted on 07/14/2015 9:02:49 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: BuffaloJack

I follow politics pretty closely, but this one got by me. I remember when Corker was on television supporting his new bill. I didn’t think much about it and didn’t realize he had just reversed how a trade deal was handled.

In effect, the Senate gave Obama the right to do trade deals without a 2/3rd majority of the Senate. A lot of us are just now waking up to what the Corker bill really did. It should be illegal for the Congress to pass something that goes against our Constitution without making it a Constitutional Amendment.


33 posted on 07/14/2015 9:11:05 AM PDT by FR_addict (Boehner needs to go!)
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To: FR_addict

Cotten for President


34 posted on 07/14/2015 9:13:33 AM PDT by Homer1
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To: BuffaloJack

McConnell and Boehner gave away that power back in May. Has everyone already forgotten?


35 posted on 07/14/2015 9:14:12 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: MN_Mike; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; MountainDad; aposiopetic; ...
    Ted Cruz Ping!

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    Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

    CRUZ or LOSE!

36 posted on 07/14/2015 9:28:21 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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