US Senate Panel Advances Congress Vote on Iran Deal

Leaders of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee reached agreement on Tuesday on revisions to a bipartisan bill that would allow Congress to vote on an international agreement to rein in Iran's nuclear program. Committee Chairman Bob Corker and the panel's top Democrat, Senator Ben Cardin, said they had worked out new wording they hope will attract enough support to overcome a possible veto by President Barack Obama. The revisions would shorten the time in which Congress...

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