A toothless Iran sanctions bill
Daniel Pipes says a bill for sanctions against Iran won't work if it allows the president to waive its provisions:
What's the point, one might ask, of the pro-sanctions side struggling so hard to attain a veto-proof majority when Obama can negate its provisions at will? Indeed, he has already made statements along the very lines the bill requires, notably in his State of the Union (SOTU) address in January, when he (falsely) claimed that "for the first time in a decade, we've halted the progress of its nuclear program and reduced its stockpile of nuclear material." On the other side, why does the White House expend so much political capital stopping this bill when it could let it pass and then kill it by invoking the waiver?He's correct. This bill is meaningless if the Republicans sponsoring it can't do it without a waiver clause.
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