a vote on the Menendez-Kirk sanctions legislation, . In addition to the two named senators, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Dan Coats (R-Ind.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), ...
Barack Obama won some political breathing space at home for his diplomacy with Iran on Tuesday when the Democratic senator who has co-authored a said he would hold off voting on the proposal for another two months. Bob Menendez, the leading Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee and ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visits the Bushehr nuclear power plant just outside the port city of Bushehr in southern Iran on Jan. 13, 2015./ Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee made clear Tuesday they oppose passing a new Iran sanctions bill, at least until a March 24 deadline for a ...
Unless there is any doubt, the vast majority of Democrats value partisan support for a failed president over support for our own national security and for that of Israel. Hence, they want to delay once again a vote on the Menendez-Kirk bill imposing sanctions on Iran unless it agrees to an ...
Senate Banking Committee member Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. gives his opening statement on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, during the committee’s hearing on Iran sanctions. A group of Senate Democrats told the White House on Tuesday that they won’t support passage of an Iran ...
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) speaks about immigration reform at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington December 10, 2014./ (Reuters) - Several Democratic senators said on Tuesday they would give the Obama administration at least two more months to reach a nuclear deal with Iran ...
- Hawkish Senate Democrats are backing off an aggressive push for Iran sanctions legislation, saying they'll give President Barack Obama breathing room to let international talks play out over Iran's nuclear program. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said Tuesday that he and nine other Democrats ...
Sen. Bob Menendez promised Tuesday to hold off his support for additional sanctions against Iran until after a March deadline./ Menendez, the lead Democratic sponsor of the Nuclear Free Iran Act, announced Tuesday during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Iran that he sent a letter to ...
WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, co-sponsor of legislation that would tighten sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, said on Tuesday he and other Democratic senators would not back passage of the bill until after March 24 and only if there is no framework ...
The move may slow momentum toward passage of legislation that President Obama has said he’ll veto./ (Bloomberg) -- The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said he will seek to delay action on legislation he’s sponsoring that would impose more sanctions on Iran if negotiations ...
during his State of the Union address to members of Congress looking to hang new sanctions over Iran's head: Keep. Out./ It's a message world leaders and diplomats working with the U.S. to wrangle Iran into relinquishing its nuclear weapons program have echoed. But none of that is stopping ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate banking committee wants to put the brakes on legislation to levy more sanctions on Iran if no diplomatic agreement can be reached by July to prevent Tehran from being able to develop a nuclear weapon. Sen. Sherrod Brown said at a hearing ...
The odds of reaching a deal to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons that could pass muster in Tehran, U.S. officials have never said the chances of success were better than 50-50, and privately some American negotiators are much more pessimistic than that as the negotiations head toward ...
At least 80 Iranian MPs have signed a bill that will oblige the administration to cancel the Geneva nuclear deal, if the US Congress imposes new sanctions against Iran. Spokesman for the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iran's Parliament, Hossein Naghavi Hosseini said that the ...
The odds of reaching a deal to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons that could pass muster in Tehran, Jerusalem and the U.S. Congress are growing longer. U.S. officials have never said the chances of success were better than 50-50, and privately some American negotiators are much more ...
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to a bill stripping the state's Democratic governor of any role in picking someone to occupy a U.S. Senate seat if a vacancy occurred in the home state of 82-year-old Senate Republican leader The legislation calls for a ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Bakytzhan Sagintayev in Moscow/ MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies ...
A giant anaconda has been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon, possibly killed by a gunshot wound, according to a Dutch researcher who studies snakes and recently helped discover a giant anaconda that was a contender for the largest snake in the world. The snake found dead is not the same as the ...
U.S. President Biden hosts a Juneteenth concert at the White House in Washington/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - The woman who admitted to stealing President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley's diary and helping sell it to conservative activists could face arrest as soon as Friday after skipping her sentencing, ...
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Amit Soussana has become the first Israeli woman to speak publicly about enduring what she says was a sexual assault and other forms of violence during her 55 days in captivity following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, according to reporting by The New York Times on Tuesday. ...
run government media office says 18 Palestinians have been killed while trying to collect desperately-needed aid that was airdropped over northern Gaza. Twelve people drowned when they went into the sea to retrieve food packages, according to a statement. The other six were trampled to death in ...
Ecuador’s youngest mayor and her press officer were found Sunday shot to death in a vehicle amid an ongoing state of emergency, police said. , the 27-year-old mayor of San Vicente and member of the left-wing Citizen Revolution Party, was found alongside her advisor, Jairo Loor, in the vehicle, ...
and why so many women are getting randomly punched in the face while just walking down the street? on Monday, you may have come across a video of a woman telling her story about being punched in the face as she walked down the street. And then scrolling further, you may have come across another. ...
A United Nations human rights expert says she believes Israel has committed "acts of genocide" in Gaza./ Francesca Albanese will present her report on Tuesday to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva./ But it has already been dismissed by Israel, whose ambassador described it as "an outrageous ...