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 ...
A drone view shows a trail of trucks lining up on a road near Mitzpe Ramon, southern Israel, on 9 May Image caption: A drone view shows a trail of trucks lining up on a road near Mitzpe Ramon, southern Israel, on 9 May Humanitarian agencies, Israel's allies and other countries to ensure that ...
The northern lights animate the night sky on Sept. 8, 2022, in Bettles, Alaska. / Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images/ Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images/ Americans as far south as Alabama and Northern California could be treated to a show of the which ...
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (Reuters) -Dallas Federal Reserve President Lorie Logan on Friday said it's not clear if monetary policy is tight enough to bring inflation down to the U.S. central bank's 2% goal, and with price pressures still too strong, it is too soon to be cutting interest rates. ...
China's car exports surged to a record high in April, data showed on Friday, as domestic sales slipped 5.8% from a year earlier amid intensifying price competition and consumers' caution about spending on big items during a shaky economic recovery. Car exports jumped 38% year-on-year to 417,000 ...
scale Israeli ground invasion, Rafah's medical facilities have been overwhelmed./ Medics say more than a million people sheltering in the southern Gaza city are at risk of being deprived of healthcare after the Israeli military began a "limited" operation against Hamas on its eastern outskirts ...
Residents are shocked after a hidden camera disguised as a rock was discovered in a Chino Hills neighborhood. The camera was designed to blend in with its environment and was carefully placed in a grassy area underneath a tree on a center median. The camera was also pointed directly at James ...
Unfortunately, cancer can happen to anyone—a fact that is physically and emotionally painful and unfair. We don't always know why happens to someone, and people can't control every aspect of their health. However, food choices are one factor people should feel empowered to make, knowing they can ...
A Family Fare store is shown in Midland, Mich., Thursday, May 9, 2024. Contractors curious about an extension cord on the roof of a Michigan grocery store made a startling discovery: A 34-year-old woman was living inside the business sign, with enough space for a computer, printer and coffee ...
Ukraine's parliament voted on Thursday to dismiss Deputy Prime Minister , who has overseen the wartime reconstruction effort and championed efforts to set up a vital Black Sea shipping lane, lawmakers said. Kubrakov also helped ensure key logistical routes for millions of people fleeing the ...
Play video Biden Warns Israel over Rafah from BBC News/ Half of Gaza water sites damaged or destroyed, BBC satellite data reveals/ Hundreds of Gaza's water and sanitation facilities have been damaged or destroyed since Israel began military action against Hamas, satellite analysis by BBC Verify ...