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Washington, D.C. – With a four-month extension of Iran nuclear talks announced by the Obama administration last week, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) today joined Senators Bob Corker (R-TN), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John McCain (R-AZ) and James Risch (R-ID) to introduce legislation requiring congressional review of any final agreement with Iran. The bill also would prevent further extensions of the negotiations, strictly enforce Iran’s compliance, and prevent implementation of a final agreement if a veto-proof majority of Congress disapproves of the deal
An excerpt of Rubio’s exchange is below:
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio
Senate Floor
July 23, 2014
http://youtu.be/jnmmtG9Dfno
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“Any final agreement of a matter of this consequence should be reviewed by this body, should come before Congress, and should have the ability of Congress to provide oversight over it. And the absence of that, I believe, unfortunately, leaves us vulnerable – not just to a terrible deal – but to a dangerous one that could potentially endanger the future of our allies and even of our own country.”
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“So the Iranians in this whole negotiation view themselves as being in a position of strength. To be quite frank, they believe that our president wants this deal more than they do. They believe he wants this deal more than they do. And that’s what puts them in this tremendous position of strength. And the result is that these negotiations are not going to, in my view – I hope that I’m wrong, I hope that tomorrow we open up and read, you know what? They’ve changed their mind. They don’t want to do any more terrorism, no rockets and no nuclear weapon program and they’ve become just a normal government and a normal country.
“Don’t hold your hopes out for that because that is not what they’ve shown in the past, that is not what they’re doing now, and they are negotiating from a position of strength because they believe that the president wants a deal much more than they want or need a deal.”
The Iran Nuclear Negotiations Act of 2014 contains the following key provisions: