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Senate approves Iran review legislation
Posted: May 7, 2015
See what happens when the Republicans are in Charge. Things get done. 
Senate approves Iran review legislation by large margin
The Senate gave overwhelming approval Thursday to legislation establishing a congressional review for a proposed nuclear deal with Iran, as Republican leaders set aside efforts from their own rank and file to amend the carefully-crafted bipartisan compromise.
On a 98-1 vote, the Senate lent a bipartisan boost to legislation — likely to be approved next week by the House — that will allow for a 30-day review of any final deal with Iran, giving what supporters said is a congressional voice in the process as President Obama finishes negotiations with Iran.
“Without this bill, there is no review,” Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said during the closing debate, which shut off a bid from younger conservatives to toughen the language even if meant a collapse of support for the oversight. “No bill, no review.”
"When the Republicans are in Charge, things get done." - They sure do
[ In Reply To ..]First they sell arms to Iran when their president's in office with Iran-Contra, then pretend they want all that arms stuff we helped them with stopped, when there's a Dem president in office, blaming him for it.
Modern Republicans sure got a lot done when 47 of them threw a hissy fit over the president possibly overstepping his bounds on immigration, but then turned right around themselves and unconstitutionally (and hypocritically) bypassed the remaining 53 members of the Senate and the majority, the entire House of Representatives, the President of the United States, the Secretary of State and the US Ambassador to Iraq, and wrote a letter to Iraq, just to declare their own sovereignty over the president (still pretending their president's administration didn't sell arms to Iraq in the first place).
I'm pretty sure the entire idea our forefathers had was a "checks-and-balances" system so that NO ONE is "in charge" and "sovereign."
Modern Republicans also "got more done" when they spent billions of our tax dollars to launch "pre-emptive" strikes on countries that contained neither Osama bin Laden or weapons of mass destruction like they said.
Modern Republicans "got more done" when they broadened the idea of international free-trade from Mexico and Canada to now include India and Communist China in the 2000s until it helped contribute to a stock market crash on September 16, 2008 (two months before Obama was elected, mind you) and outsourced most of our jobs there as MTs.
Oh yeah, Modern Republicans got a record amount done all right.
(REAL Republicans like Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelet and Dwight D. Eisenhower would roll over in their graves!)
But having said that, I AM glad members of Congress are at least now making an attempt to cooperate with each other - THAT'S what's gets the things done we approve of - bipartisan cooperation :)
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