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Are efforts to stop deal dead, or mostly dead?

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After the Democrats in the Senate filibustered and blocked the upper body from even voting on the Iran deal, most of the mainstream media announced the effort to block the horrible P5+1 deal agreement was dead. But as Miracle Max said in “The Princess Bride,” it’s only mostly dead: “There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.”

Beginning on the Sunday before the vote, sources in the Beltway began to report that there were other options being explored in the House, a “sense of Congress” vote that the president did not comply with the Corker-Cardin bill because the administration didn’t turn over information about the side deals between the U.N. and Iran (true). On first glance, a “sense of Congress” resolution may seem a meaningless gesture, but as the saying goes there is method in the madness.

Corker-Cardin was the bill passed and signed by the president months ago to allow for debate and vote on the Iran deal. To quote Corker-Cardin, within five days of completing a deal the administration is required to turn over every element of the agreement “including any joint comprehensive plan of action entered into or made between Iran and any other parties, and any additional materials related thereto, including annexes, appendices, codicils, side agreements, implementing materials, documents, and guidance, technical or other understandings, and any related agreements, whether entered into or implemented prior to the agreement or to be entered into or implemented in the future.”

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