Iran Amendment Stalls Senate's Plans to Pass Spending Bills
Senator Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, listens during an interview in Washington on March 17, 2015./ Provision from Republican would block Iran heavy-water deal/ Senate was hoping to advance Energy-Water appropriations bill/ For a brief time this week, the Senate appeared to be ready to shake off its reputation for stalemate by restarting the process of passing regular U.S. government spending bills. But a dispute over a Republican amendment that would target a portion of the Iran nuclear deal threatened to scuttle the effort to ...
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