Harry Reid Endorses Iran Deal

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., hinted to reporters on Monday that support would pick up for the Iran nuclear agreement in the coming days.

She becomes the 29th senator on a list of Democrats and independents who have publicly announced their support of the deal. Pat Toomey is pleased that New Jersey Democratic Sen.

“I want to thank my dear friend, your outstanding senator, Harry Reid for holding this summit and for keeping us focused on this challenge”, Obama said.

The faith leaders said the agreement would “dramatically shrink and impose unprecedented constraints on Iran’s nuclear program”, and help “de-escalate tension in a region that is already suffering the effects of war and violence in ways unimaginable to most of us in the United States“.

The freshman senator also highlighted the existence of arrangements between the worldwide Atomic Energy Agency and Iran, which raised questions over whether the administration was submitting to Congress all documents called for under the Corker-Cardin bill.

Some supporters have now begun aiming to get 41 votes, which would allow Democrats to kill the disapproval resolution outright in the Senate and protect President Barack Obama from having to use his veto pen. “And then we talked about riding off into the sunset together”, Obama said at the fundraiser, which was raised more than $300,000, according to the state Democratic party.

Dozens of hardline Iranian students opposed to the nuclear agreement with world powers gathered in front of parliament Tuesday, urging lawmakers to decide quickly on the text, several local media reported.

Sen Debbie Stabenow said today she will support the deal, joining steady stream of Democrats who have recently backed the deal.

“This is one of the most important votes I’ll take during my time in Congress“, he said.

“Pennsylvanians deserve a candidate who understands that giving hundreds of billions of dollars to the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism is a bad idea”.

And that leaves the U.S. administration only six votes short of the 34 required to uphold a veto from Obama, which he is expected to issue once the Republican majority in Congress votes to reject the accord next month. “What we have been focused on is building the kind of support that we need in both the House (of Representatives) and the Senate to sustain a presidential veto”, said spokesman Josh Earnest on Monday, reports The Frontier Post. Democrats would love it if GOP senators who oppose the Iran deal will be similarly punished at the polls in a few years, but it’s not likely to turn out that way.