Losing Ground in Senate, GOP Warns Dems Against Filibustering Anti-Iran Bill

[rangerrebew]

 Losing Ground in Senate, GOP Warns Dems Against Filibustering Anti-Iran Bill
Posted By Jason Ditz On August 31, 2015 @ 6:08 pm In News | 4 Comments

In September, the House and Senate are planning to vote on bills demanding that the US back out of the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran. The votes are expected to split almost entirely along party lines, and which Republicans initially expressed confidence at getting enough Democrats to override a presidential veto, that seems a remote possibility at best.

31 senators have already endorsed the deal, and only 34 are needed to enforce a presidential veto. The 13 remaining undecided Democrats, however, could give them a shot at filibustering against even having a vote, with 60 votes needed to block a filibuster and force a vote, and by extension a veto.

Either way, the P5+1 deal seems safe, but Republicans are now seeing forcing a veto as at least a partial victory, and are threatening huge political consequences if the Democrats manage the filibuster, saying that the Democrats would be “denying the people a vote” on the matter.

The White House is said to be keen to avoid having to veto a resolution against the deal, and would prefer it not to come up. Even if a filibuster precludes the Senate vote and the need for a veto, Republicans are suggesting the House might vote anyhow, though such a vote would be meaningless.

With tensions of millions of dollars of AIPAC lobbying going into trying to kill the deal, a lot of Congressmen are hoping to prove their loyalty to the lobbyists by voting against the pact, and they seem horrified that they might lose that opportunity if there is no vote.
 

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[rangerrebew]

  McConnell warning  the democrats!  Everyone knows he has no spine and a warning  is nothing more than trying to blow smoke up   conservatives' asses.  This tells me he has already caved.

[PzLdr]

I guess the nuclear option only works for Harry Reid...

[flowers]

Pfft.....all teamobama needs is one more yes vote. Kabuki theater by McConnell.

[libertybele]

So I guess we should get ready to bend over and kiss our azzes good-bye.   

[flowers]

So I guess we should get ready to bend over and kiss our azzes good-bye.

Pretty much.

[olde north church]

McConnell needs Viagra ...

[andy58-in-nh]

McConnell needs Viagra ...

It was made for members like him.

[DCPatriot]

McConnell needs Viagra ...

He'd just get taller.   ^-^

[Bigun]

Remember when the Republicans took control of Congress and promised to pass each funding bill separately so they would not be forced into continuing resolutions or omnibus spending bills because they were up against a deadline?

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday said the biggest challenge facing Congress this month is funding the federal government.

On Kentucky’s WYMT-TV, McConnell was asked in a wide-ranging interview what he thinks the biggest challenge will be when lawmakers return to Capitol Hill next week after their annual August recess.

“Funding the federal government,” McConnell said.

Congress will have only about 12 days in session before the Oct. 1. funding deadline.

He then blamed Senate Democrats for putting Congress in this funding bind, because they rejected the idea of sticking to sequestration budget ceilings for the next fiscal year. Democrats want to increase spending for both the Pentagon and domestic programs.

“They prevented us from doing anything with any of the bills that appropriate the government, thereby forcing a negotiation when we go back in after Labor Day, which I’ll be engaged in with the administration and others to try to sort out how much we’re going to spend and where we’re going to spend it.”
McConnell predicted Congress will engage in a “grand negotiation” this fall over spending.

While many conservatives before and during the congressional recess have called for defunding Planned Parenthood, McConnell suggested GOP leaders can’t pursue that until voters elect a GOP president.

“The president’s made it very clear he’s not going to sign any bill that includes defunding of Planned Parenthood, so that’s another issue that awaits a new president, hopefully with a different point of view about Planned Parenthood,” he said.

“We just don’t have the votes to get the outcome that we’d like,” he added. “Again, the president has the pen to sign it. If he doesn’t sign it, it doesn’t happen. But yeah we voted on that already in the Senate, we’ll vote on it again, but I would remind all of your viewers the way you make a law in this country, the Congress has to pass it and the president has to sign it."

McConnell has repeatedly promised that he would not allow a government shutdown on his watch or a default on the nation’s debt.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/252396-mcconnell-biggest-challenge-this-fall-is-funding-the-government