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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 01:57 PM Mar 2015

Dem Senator Devised A Fantastic Response To Tom Cotton's Iran Letter

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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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/stabenow-amendment-cotton-iran-letter

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Dem Senator Devised A Fantastic Response To Tom Cotton's Iran Letter (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2015 OP
Ain't gonna happen, but a fun idea! sinkingfeeling Mar 2015 #1
I thought that they would send another letter to Iran... Blanks Mar 2015 #2
Great idea, Sen Stabenow.. keep up the heat on cotton mouth.. let him know how unacceptable his Cha Mar 2015 #3
Screw a letter! How about we just send Tom Cotton to Iran! Rex Mar 2015 #4
This would be nice (nt) question everything Mar 2015 #5
"Stationary or electronic devices"? Nye Bevan Mar 2015 #6
For you..... msanthrope Mar 2015 #9
i like it samsingh Mar 2015 #7
She has turbinetree Mar 2015 #8
no she can't. no they didn't, and no she wont. NM_Birder Mar 2015 #10
She forgot one thing. calimary Mar 2015 #11
LOVE your idea! 2banon Mar 2015 #12

Blanks

(4,835 posts)
2. I thought that they would send another letter to Iran...
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 03:17 PM
Mar 2015

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)
3. Great idea, Sen Stabenow.. keep up the heat on cotton mouth.. let him know how unacceptable his
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:20 PM
Mar 2015

stupid "letter" was.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
6. "Stationary or electronic devices"?
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 12:40 AM
Mar 2015

As in, devices that either remain motionless or are electronic in nature?

turbinetree

(24,710 posts)
8. She has
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 09:40 AM
Mar 2015

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.

calimary

(81,431 posts)
11. She forgot one thing.
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 11:59 AM
Mar 2015

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.

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