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Live Thread: Senate to begin voting on Iran amendments today (47 filed by Republicans so far)
Congress.gov ^

Posted on 04/28/2015 9:12:38 AM PDT by Dave346

Senate Sponsor

Rubio, Marco [R-FL] [13] Cotton, Tom [R-AR] [11] Blunt, Roy [R-MO] [4] Risch, James E. [R-ID] [4] Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]

Senate Cosponsor

Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL] [6] Toomey, Pat [R-PA] [4] Risch, James E. [R-ID] [3] Rubio, Marco [R-FL] [2]

(Excerpt) Read more at congress.gov ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bomb; iran; israel; muslimbrotherhood; nuclear; terror; war; waronterror

1 posted on 04/28/2015 9:12:38 AM PDT by Dave346
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To: Dave346

Sullivan sponsoring 3 amendments so far (that part got cut off when I copied).


2 posted on 04/28/2015 9:16:59 AM PDT by Dave346
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To: Dave346

The usual League of RINOs will vote against these amendments to make sure Obama gets exactly what he wants.


3 posted on 04/28/2015 9:27:50 AM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: Dave346

These amendments are very important to the individual GOP senators because they can affect how much campaign money can/will be raised from the Jewish Republican Coalition, Zionist Organization of America, or other such groups.


4 posted on 04/28/2015 9:32:03 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: navyguy

The seizure of the MV MAERSK TIGRIS by Iran should affect the voting.


5 posted on 04/28/2015 9:35:09 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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6 posted on 04/28/2015 9:39:21 AM PDT by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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To: reg45
No vote. No deal.

This act is meant to show legislative weakness over Iran's hold on the executive branch. We vote on anything with a ship being pirated by Iran at the very moment of the votes is a bitch slap.

7 posted on 04/28/2015 9:39:49 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: reg45
I agree it should
8 posted on 04/28/2015 11:04:10 AM PDT by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
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To: navyguy; Dave346

Depends on the amendments - Congressional pay raises, hiring more pages for the bath house, lobster and arugula lobbyist party platters, personalized toilet paper rollers...

You know... “the peoples’ business”...


9 posted on 04/28/2015 11:52:28 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: reg45

Yes it SHOULD, but as I said elsewhere, the RINOs probably have already had surgery that Bruce Jenner is going to have, so it won’t make any difference in the voting.


10 posted on 04/28/2015 12:19:12 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to targelationt the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: Dave346

Please help. Amendments to WHAT?


11 posted on 04/28/2015 12:39:53 PM PDT by Rapscallion (Obama: All the news that's fit to control and manage.)
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To: Dave346

All of the proposed amendments are designed to strengthen the toothless Corker-Menendez Iran Review Act that came out of Committee 2 weeks ago with a 19-0 vote.

Democrats aren’t offering any amendments because the bill is so weak.

At 4:02pm the Senate started hearing amendments.

First up is Ron Johnson who wants to turn any potential deal into a treaty, requiring a 2/3rds vote to ratify.


12 posted on 04/28/2015 1:17:58 PM PDT by Dave346
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To: Dave346

Johnson’s amendment is probably the most important one of all of them.

Will be interesting to see what the vote count is on it, as clearly any deal with Iran that lifts all sanctions would be a treaty, despite Zero’s attempts to bypass both the Constitution and Congress.


13 posted on 04/28/2015 1:37:11 PM PDT by Dave346
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This article references the Johnson amendment.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/28/frank-gaffney-senates-institutional-suicide/

The importance of this vote can not be overstated. If it goes down in defeat, not only is a massive blow to the Constitution but the chance of an Israeli-Iranian war goes up.


14 posted on 04/28/2015 2:33:19 PM PDT by Dave346
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Senate will vote on Johnson’s amendment at 6:10pm.

60 votes needed to pass.


15 posted on 04/28/2015 3:07:47 PM PDT by Dave346
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To: Dave346

Vote count on the Johnson amendment was 39 Yes, 57 No.

Israel just got hung out to dry here. If they didn’t know they were alone on Iran before, they certainly know it now!


16 posted on 04/28/2015 3:50:26 PM PDT by Dave346
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