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Republican congresswoman to put a spanner in Obama’s nuclear deals

She also promised that her bill would require the administration to certify that a country has met a number or requirements before signing a nuclear deal with the United States, and to verify that the deal would advance U.S. interests…….

Ros-Lehtinen promises to stop Obama’s civilian nuclear deals,  FP, by Josh Rogin, 14 Jan 2011, The Obama administration is negotiating civilian nuclear cooperation agreements with a host of countries around the world. But Congress will intervene to try to stop some of those deals, if House Foreign Relations Committee chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen but has anything to say about it.

Ros-Lehtinen, the Cuban-American firebrand who took over the committee last week, has promised to fight the administration’s foreign policy agenda on a wide range of fronts…….
Her next target is the Atomic Energy Act (AEA), the law that governs civilian nuclear agreements — commonly known as “123” agreements for the section of the AEA governing them.

Ros-Lehtinen is angry that the U.S. entered into a 123 agreement with Russia this month. The administration submitted the agreement to Congress last May. Ros-Lehtinen introduced a resolution to stop it during the previous congressional session, but the resolution never came up for a vote in the Democratic-led House. The deal consequently went through after the 90-day waiting period expired.

“The U.S.-Russia nuclear cooperation agreement that went into effect this week never got a vote in Congress,” Ros-Lehtinen said Thursday. “The Atomic Energy Act must be reformed so that these far-reaching and potentially dangerous agreements are required to receive an up-or-down vote in Congress before going into effect.”

She also promised that her bill would require the administration to certify that a country has met a number or requirements before signing a nuclear deal with the United States, and to verify that the deal would advance U.S. interests…….

Ros-Lehtinen promises to stop Obama’s civilian nuclear deals | The Cable

January 14, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA