GOP continues push for direct vote on Iran nuclear conclusion
US Senate Republicans are continuing their attempts to block Iran nuclear agreement on the Capitol Hill.
Republican Senator Dan Coats expressed hope on Monday that the Democratic lawmakers would allow for a clean vote on the matter to pave the way to disapprove the deal, backed by the administration of President Barack Obama.
He made the remarks ahead of a procedural vote scheduled for Tuesday, The Hill reported.
"My hope is that Senate Democrats will hear from their constituents and allow an up-or-down vote on President Obama’s Iran deal this week," he said, further claiming that "An issue of this magnitude deserves a vote in the world’s greatest deliberative body.”
Obama has gained enough Democratic support from 42 Democrats for the accord to pass without even having to issue a veto.
Democrats, except Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), voted Thursday to block the resolution of disapproval.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) scheduled a second vote on Tuesday.
"It's telling that Democrats would go to such extreme lengths to prevent President Obama from even having to consider legislation on this issue," McConnell said after the vote last week.
GOP members have censured the Democrat over the vote.
"This debate is not over yet. A better deal is possible, and the American people should accept nothing less," Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) wrote in a Charleston Gazette-Mail op-ed on Monday.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said it would be “dumb” for the lawmakers to change their vote.
The Democratic minority leader had offered to allow the Senate to go directly to a vote on final passage, but only if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell agreed to a 60-vote threshold for passage,
Obama has been behind a campaign to safeguard the deal with Iran despite funding by Israeli lobby against it.
Tehran and the P5+1 - the United States, Britain, Russia, China, France, and Germany - finalized the nuclear accord, dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in Vienna.
Under the JCPOA, limits will be put on Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for, among other things, the removal of all economic and financial bans against the Islamic Republic.
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