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 ...
Former U.S. President Trump's criminal trial on charges of falsifying business records continues in New York/ 's trial in Florida on charges of illegally keeping classified documents after leaving office has been indefinitely postponed, a judge decided on Tuesday, greatly reducing the odds he ...
A restaurant manager was beaten over a glass of lemonade at a chain seafood restaurant in Livonia last month. Because a customer, allegedly, did not want to pay for their drinks – Susan Rains was attacked. "He dumped the drink on me first, and then he smashed it on the side of my head," Rains ...
Scientists have issued a stern warning over the ongoing threat of rising sea levels caused by the ever-changing climate. revealed that coastal communities across eight states in the U.S. are facing "one of the most rapid sea level surges on Earth." Since 2010, satellite data shows that the Gulf ...
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A substitute teacher punched and slapped a Las Vegas valley high school student causing him to become unconscious after the student used a racial slur against the teacher, according to the arrest report. While the physical fight was caught on video, what led up to it was not. ...
for 'limited' operation/ Israel's military says it has begun ordering Palestinians to leave parts of eastern Rafah ahead of a "limited" operation in the southern Gaza city./ About 100,000 people are being directed to head for an "expanded humanitarian area" in Khan Younis and al-Mawasi./ After ...
Boston’s home for classic rock announced changes to its popular morning drive show on Monday. Pete McKenzie and Heather Ford have been dropped from 100.7 WZLX’s lineup of on-air personalities, a spokesperson for iHeartMedia confirmed. “First and foremost, we’d like to thank Pete McKenzie and ...
Palestinians have begun leaving parts of eastern Rafah in Gaza after Israel urged 100,000 people to move towards an expanded "humanitarian zone". The evacuation comes ahead of an expected offensive on the city, where more than 1.4 million people are sheltering. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) ...
In this photo released by the Russian Defense Ministry on March 19, 2024, a Russian tank fires at Ukrainian troops from a position near the border with Ukraine in Russia’s Belgorod region. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)/ Russia plans to hold drills simulating the use of ...
Play video Israel Tells Rafah Civilians to Evacuate from BBC News/ Hamas says Israel 'escalation' will have consequences/ Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri has told Reuters news agency that Israel's evacuation order in parts of Rafah is a "dangerous escalation that will have consequences". ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Relatives have identified three bodies found in a well as those of two Australian surfers and one American who went missing last weekend, Mexican authorities said Sunday. Baja California state prosecutors said the relatives had viewed the corpses recovered from a remote well ...