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Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) would like to prevent Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) from sending any more letters to Iranian leaders about the nuclear deal, prompting her to file an amendment to block just that.
She introduced an amendment on Wednesday that would defund "the purchase of stationary or electronic devices for the purpose of members of Congress or congressional staff communicating with foreign governments and undermining the role of the President as Head of State in international nuclear negotiations on behalf of the United States," according to the Huffington Post.
Cotton sent a letter to Iranian leaders earlier in March warning them against a nuclear deal with the U.S. and its allies. The letter signed by 47 Republican senators may have backfired, however, as it could keep Congress from passing a bill to require that Congress review any nuclear deal made by the Obama administration.
Members of the administration, as well as some Republicans, criticized the letter. Secretary of State John Kerry called the letter "unconstitutional" and inappropriate. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Bob Corker (R-TN), who did not sign the letter, said it was not "constructive."
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sinkingfeeling
(51,470 posts)Blanks
(4,835 posts)Letting them know that Cotton has been spanked and his access to stationary severely restricted.
Signing off with:
Please inform us if he writes to you again, that we may adjust his punishments accordingly.
Respectfully,
America
Cha
(297,503 posts)stupid "letter" was.
Rex
(65,616 posts)One way!
question everything
(47,521 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)As in, devices that either remain motionless or are electronic in nature?
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)samsingh
(17,600 posts)turbinetree
(24,710 posts)the right and the means to have all 47 traitors arrested by the Sargent -of -Arms under the Logan Act or in clear violations of the Constitution.
She has this right within the powers she has a sitting member of Congress.
Then all 47 would have to respond to the charges, they have not at the present time.
NM_Birder
(1,591 posts)calimary
(81,431 posts)She should have tried to sneak in language mandating government regulation and intervention of the penis and scrotum.
If I were in Congress, I'd be trying to get away with that, and more, at every turn! And I wouldn't make ANY noise about it. I'd do it with as much stealth as possible. Might even try to sneak language in that blocks and overrides ANY attempt to fuck with the right to vote, nationally OR statewide, too.