White House Signals Acceptance of Iran Deal Review by Congress
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the press after a bilateral meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in the Oval Office of the White House April 14, 2015 in Washington, DC.
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The Obama administration signaled it would accept legislation giving Congress the authority to review any nuclear deal with Iran after the Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee changed the measure.
The revised provisions “would be the kind of compromise the president is willing to sign,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Tuesday. President Barack Obama’s advisers had previously threatened a veto of the measure sponsored by Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker, a Republican.