A Formula for Rubber-stamping Obama’s Iran Deal

2015-04-15

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This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. On the surface, yesterday’s insistence by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Congress get a vote on a nuclear deal with Iran appears to be a victory for what is left of our constitutional republic. Two clues suggest otherwise: First, the panel’s legislation was adopted unanimously. And second, the White House says Mr. Obama is willing to sign such a bill. The President and his partisans on Capitol Hill are on boa...

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

On the surface, yesterday’s insistence by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Congress get a vote on a nuclear deal with Iran appears to be a victory for what is left of our constitutional republic.

Two clues suggest otherwise: First, the panel’s legislation was adopted unanimously. And second, the White House says Mr. Obama is willing to sign such a bill.

The President and his partisans on Capitol Hill are on board for a simple reason: Instead of this deal facing the high hurdle the Constitution requires for treaties – in which the executive branch must persuade two-thirds of the Senate to approve it, the mechanism set up by the proposed legislation will require opponents to come up with that super-majority in both houses of Congress.

This arrangement serves Iran’s interests, not America’s.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.

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