US Senate wants to restrict Obama on making any Iran deal
In its first foreign policy challenge to President Barack Obama, the Senate is likely to vote soon on legislation restricting the administration's ability to strike a deal with Iran over its nuclear program, officials attending a retreat of Republican lawmakers said Thursday.
Sen. Bob Corker, the new chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said he and other lawmakers are drafting a measure to give Congress a right to "vote up or down" on any agreement, a prerogative it currently does not have.
The new Congress is now controlled in both chambers by Republicans.
