The Senate is expected to wrap up consideration of the annual defense bill next week before moving on to how to fund the military. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., filed cloture on the National Defense Authorization bill (NDAA) on June 11 in a bid to get through it this coming week. The Senate is expected to vote early next week on ...

WASHINGTON -- With less than a month before the deadline for a nuclear deal with Iran, Sens. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) filed an amendment to the must-pass defense budget that would extend Congressional sanctions against Iran for 10 additional years. If passed, the amendment would extend the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996, currently ...

Two anti-Iran Republican senators are attempting to tie the release of a jailed Washington Post reporter to the ongoing talks with Iran over its nuclear energy program. Marco Rubio and Mark Kirk said on Monday that US President Barack Obama should demand the release of Jason Rezaian, a 38-year-old Iranian-American, who along with his wife, Yeganeh ...

The United States should not lift sanctions against Iran as part of an emerging nuclear agreement, says Sen. Mark Kirk, co-sponsor of sanctions legislation against the Islamic Republic. Lately, Iran has tried to backtrack on the promises they made to President Obama, the Republican of Illinois said during Saturdays weekly GOP address, referring ...

[caption id="attachment_143879" align="alignright" width="192"] US Senator Mark Kirk[/caption] WASHINGTON The four House Democrats from Illinois mulling a 2016 challenge to Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., blasted him Tuesday for signing a letter to Irans leaders warning a nuclear deal with President Barack Obama may not last after he leaves office. Just ...

[caption id="attachment_152925" align="alignright" width="168"] IRGC naval drill ' The Great Prophet-9'[/caption] US Senator Mark Kirk stated that the United States should not offer nuclear concessions to Iran following Tehrans military exercise to destroy a US aircraft carrier and its crew. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) The United States should not ...

Jan 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Banking Committee voted 18-4 on Thursday to advance a bill that would toughen sanctions on Iran if international negotiators fail to reach an agreement on Tehran's nuclear program by the end of June. However, the bill is not expected to come for a vote in the full Senate until at least March 24, after a group of ...

[caption id="attachment_147556" align="alignright" width="144"] U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein on Capitol Hill, December 9, 2014. Photo by Reuters[/caption] The growing backlash against Netanyahu's planned speech in Congress is diluting Democratic support for the Kirk-Menendez sanctions bill. Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California says ...

[caption id="attachment_124791" align="alignright" width="172"] Obama and Netanyahu during the U.S. president's visit in Israel, March 20, 2013. Photo by Bloomberg[/caption] The Israeli intelligence agency Mossadhas broken ranks with Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu, telling U.S. officials and lawmakers that a new Iran sanctions bill in the U.S. Congress ...

[caption id="attachment_143879" align="alignright" width="164"] US Senator Mark Kirk[/caption] A group of US lawmakers is set to reintroduce a new bill seeking to impose tougher sanctions against Iran should nuclear talks between Tehran and the P5+1 group fail. Talking to reporters at the Capitol on Thursday, Senator Mark Kirk said he expected the ...

A political analyst has urged the American people to prevent the Congress from mandating the US to participate in a potential Israeli-initiated war with Iran througha piece ofdraft legislation, Press TV reports. In a Saturdayarticle on Press TVs website, Sheldon Richman pointed to the Senates new sanctions bill against Iran and noted, The American ...

(Reuters) - Two U.S. senators are preparing legislation to impose new sanctions onIranin six months if an interim deal on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program goes nowhere, penalties that Iran's foreign minister has said would kill the agreement. The Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Robert Menendez, and Republican Senator ...