Maryland goes to the polls Tuesday – one of five states where the two remaining candidates in the Democratic presidential race and the three in the Republican race are facing off.
Thirty four Senators – 32 Democrats, plus two Independents who caucus with the Democrats – have come out in favor of the Iran deal, enough Senators to sustain a presidential veto, so approval of the deal with Iran and five American partners is a foregone conclusion.
Three senators urged President Obama to ensure that Israel removes Hamas’ military threat before a cease-fire is in place.
U.S. Sens. Joseph Lieberman and Mark Kirk have written a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing their disappointment with Israel’s exclusion from the inaugural meeting of the Global Counterterrorism Forum.
A bipartisan slate of U.S. senators will present a resolution calling on the Obama administration to make a \”nuclear-weapons capability\” by Iran a red line.
U.S. Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced a resolution calling an Israeli return to 1967 lines “contrary to United States policy and national security.” The resolution introduced June 9 is co-signed by 29 other senators, including at least two Democrats, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
A bipartisan slate of U.S. senators pressed the Obama administration on its policy on China\’s dealings with Iran. The letter, signed by 10 senators and first reported last week in Foreign Policy, lists foreign entities — most of them Chinese — dealing with Iran\’s energy sector. The senators called on the Obama administration to implement a law passed last summer that expands sanctions to third parties dealing with Iran\’s energy sector.
What’s the right word for what Sen. John Kyl (R-Ariz.) was doing when he attacked Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for “disrespecting one of the two holiest holidays for Christians” by keeping Congress in session in the week before Christmas? What do you call it when Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) target=\”_hplink\”>blasted Democrats as “sacrilegious” for wanting the Senate to take up an arms control treaty and a spending bill “right before… the most sacred holiday for Christians”?
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