{"id":20921,"date":"2015-05-11T09:19:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T16:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=20921"},"modified":"2015-05-11T09:19:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T16:19:25","slug":"senate-treaty-power-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/senate-treaty-power-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate treaty power no more"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"suicidal<\/a>(Robert Romano for NetRightDaily.com)<\/em> –\u00a0The Senate is systematically ceding its constitutional power to ratify treaties by a two-thirds majority.<\/p>\n

In a 98 to 1 vote, the Senate voted for\u00a0legislation that will allow a deal that effectively could end economic sanctions against Iran and allow Tehran to acquire nuclear weapons with which to threaten the region and U.S. national security.<\/p>\n

Oh sure, members will pretend they are gaining a say in \u201coverseeing\u201d the deal. For example, here was a statement from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)<\/a>: \u201cUltimately, I voted yes on final passage because it may delay, slightly, President Obama\u2019s ability to lift the Iran sanctions and it ensures we will have a Congressional debate on the merits of the Iran deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

It won\u2019t delay anything. And the \u201cdebate\u201d allowed for will not subject Obama\u2019s deal to a two-thirds Senate ratification \u2014 it does the opposite. Meaning, to block the treaty will require a two-thirds vote when, originally, it would have required a two-thirds vote to ratify the treaty.<\/p>\n

All the bill allows is for Congress to block Obama\u2019s Iran treaty, but only if Obama signs the bill and, in the process, rejects his own negotiations. Why would he do that?<\/p>\n

Obama would veto such legislation. In the mean time, 150 House Democrats have already signaled<\/a> they will be voting to sustain any such presidential veto.<\/p>\n

This, just a short month after Senate Republicans wrote a letter to the mullahs in Tehran that it is the Senate, not the president, who approves treaties<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The sole no vote was Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who had penned that letter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe continued evisceration of the treaty advice and consent process by this Senate is particularly alarming as this vote creates a clear pathway for Iran to achieve its nuclear dream. I expected better,\u201d said Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning.<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cAt least Tom Cotton did not bow to the pressure to sanction Obama\u2019s ill-founded policies.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, this week, the Senate will take up fast track legislation authorizing the president to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership between the U.S. and Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Like the Iran deal, it will never be submitted to the Senate for two-thirds majority treaty ratification.<\/p>\n

Instead, Congress will expedite its process by allowing simple majority votes in both houses to ratify it. A so-called executive-legislative branch agreement<\/a> \u2014 never authorized under the Constitution \u2014 it is a pure fabrication of the modern administrative state begun in 1974.<\/p>\n

According to Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, \u201c[The president] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With the Iran treaty cave and fast track this week, the Senate has effectively taken an eraser to our governing document.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The original version of this column<\/a> was published at NetRightDaily.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Robert Romano is the senior editor of Americans for Limited Government.\u00a0NetRightDaily.com<\/a> is a project of Americans for Limited Government. The project, launched in August of 2008, offers liberty-minded thought on the federal government as well as the threats that exist to individual liberty at all levels of government.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Robert Romano for NetRightDaily.com) –\u00a0The Senate is systematically ceding its constitutional power to ratify treaties by a two-thirds majority. In a 98 to 1 vote, the Senate voted for\u00a0legislation that will allow a deal that effectively could end economic sanctions against Iran and allow Tehran to acquire nuclear weapons with which to threaten the region […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20921"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20923,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20921\/revisions\/20923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}