Last week GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell announced that Republican would not defund or attempt to defund the vicious Planned Parenthood. Instead, he will INCLUDE funding for Planned Parenthood. They have refuse in both the House and Senate to ask for indictments of Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS or others that have openly lied to Congress. In the future, lying to Congress will be accepted. Where is the GOP is promoting honest government. Now we find both Speaker Boehner and McConnell are going to allow Obama to violate the Corker-Cardin law, so that Iran can have ICBM’s, nuclear weapons and $150 billion to finance terrorism.
“The term ‘agreement’ means an agreement related to the nuclear program of Iran . . . regardless of the form it takes, . . . including any joint comprehensive plan of action entered into or made between Iran and any other parties, and any additional materials related thereto, including annexes, appendices, codicils, side agreements, implementing materials, documents, and guidance, technical or other understandings, and any related agreements, whether entered into or implemented prior to the agreement or to be entered into or implemented in the future.
This is why Donald Trump is surging. Our leadership in Washington, GOP and Democrat has no respect for the laws they pass. Since they won’t enforce the laws, Trump could become President, thanks to the inaction of Boehner and McConnell.
Why Is Congress Letting Obama Ignore Corker-Cardin Iran Bill?
Jeff Dunetz, The Lid, 9/6/15
If congress really wants to kill the Iran deal they can. As Andrew McCarthy pointed out below, in the bill congress passed and Obama signed the administration has obligations to congress that they haven’t met. That is they are required to turn over every agreement including the side deals within five days of an agreement:
Including any joint comprehensive plan of action entered into or made between Iran and any other parties, and any additional materials related thereto, including annexes, appendices, codicils, side agreements, implementing materials, documents, and guidance, technical or other understandings, and any related agreements, whether entered into or implemented prior to the agreement or to be entered into or implemented in the future.
The question is why aren’t the members of congress who are voting no on the deal pushing this issue since among other things technically the 60-day-clock for a congressional vote shouldn’t have started yet?
Even more important is that congress intends to vote on the P5+1 deal without knowing all the details. There is a reason those side deals are secret..the administration knows if they became public some of those yes votes would be forced to vote no.
Additionally Corker-Cardin is the law, congress passed it and the president signed it, why would congress allow this president to get away with not implementing a bill he signed?
Read the section from Andrew McCarthy’s article below, then contact a member of congress who opposes the deal and ask they why they are ignoring the bill they passed. If both your Reps and Senators are supporting the deal, write or call Speaker Boehner, and Majority Leader McConnell and ask them why they aren’t forcing Obama to implement the bill he signed.
The Corker legislation — formally known as the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 — is crystal clear. In its very first section, the act requires the president to transmit to Congress “the agreement. . . . including all related materials and annexes.” It is too late to do that now: the act dictates that it was to have been done “not later than five days after reaching the agreement” — meaning July 19, since the agreement was finalized on July 14. Underscoring the mandate that all relevant understandings in the Iran deal — including, of course, the essential understandings — must be provided to lawmakers, the act explicitly spells out a definition of the “Agreement” in subsection (h)(1). Under it, this is what the administration was required to give Congress over six weeks ago in order to trigger the afore-described Corker review process:
The term ‘agreement’ means an agreement related to the nuclear program of Iran . . . regardless of the form it takes, . . . including any joint comprehensive plan of action entered into or made between Iran and any other parties, and any additional materials related thereto, including annexes, appendices, codicils, side agreements, implementing materials, documents, and guidance, technical or other understandings, and any related agreements, whether entered into or implemented prior to the agreement or to be entered into or implemented in the future.
The act could not be more emphatic: To get the advantage of the favorable Corker formula that allows him to lift the anti-nuclear sanctions with only one-third congressional support, the president was required to supply Congress with every scintilla of information regarding verification. In particular, the act expressly demands disclosure of the terms pertinent to whether the IAEA is capable of executing aggressive inspections in Iran and has a plausible, enforceable plan to do so.
That is why, in conjunction with providing Congress the entire agreement, including any and all “side deals” between Iran and the IAEA, the act mandates that Secretary Kerry provide a “verification assessment report.” In it, the Obama administration must demonstrate not only how it (i) “will be able to verify that Iran is complying with its obligations and commitments” and (ii) will ensure the “adequacy of the safeguards and other control mechanisms” to ensure that Iran cannot “further any nuclear-related
the capacity and capability of the International Atomic Energy Agency to effectively implement the verification regime required by or related to the agreement, including whether the International Atomic Energy Agency will have sufficient access to investigate suspicious sites or allegations of covert nuclear-related activities and whether it has the required funding, manpower, and authority to undertake the verification regime required by or related to the agreement.
Nor is that all. In making this report, the administration is required to rebut a presumption, based on solid experience, that Iran will cheat. Specifically, it is to be presumed that the jihadist regime will “use all measures not expressly prohibited by the agreement to conceal activities that violate its obligations,” and that it will “alter or deviate from standard practices in order to impede efforts that verify that Iran is complying with those obligations and commitments.”
The administration must further explain:
the capacity and capability of the International Atomic Energy Agency to effectively implement the verification regime required by or related to the agreement, including whether the International Atomic Energy Agency will have sufficient access to investigate suspicious sites or allegations of covert nuclear-related activities and whether it has the required funding, manpower, and authority to undertake the verification regime required by or related to the agreement.
Nor is that all. In making this report, the administration is required to rebut a presumption, based on solid experience, that Iran will cheat. Specifically, it is to be presumed that the jihadist regime will “use all measures not expressly prohibited by the agreement to conceal activities that violate its obligations,” and that it will “alter or deviate from standard practices in order to impede efforts that verify that Iran is complying with those obligations and commitments.”
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