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Rhode Island’s Future
A new poll from Monmouth State
University released Monday shows
41 percent of respondents are unsure if the deal should be inked while 32
percent think lawmakers should not support it and 27 percent think they should.
And according to The Hill, 35 House Democrats support the
deal and 29 are undecided while 18 Senate Democrats support and
20 are undecided.
The Rhode Island congressional
delegation is on the fence, too.
EDITOR'S NOTE: the article continues after this list of Rhode Island's members of Congress.
Residents of Rhode Island are represented in Congress by 2 Senators and 2 Representatives. | |||
Member Name | DC Phone | DC FAX | Contact Form |
Senator Jack Reed (D- RI) | 202-224-4642 | 202-224-4680 | https://www.reed.senate.gov/contact/email |
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D- RI) | 202-224-2921 | 202-228-6362 | http://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/contact/ |
Representative David Cicilline (D - 01) | 202-225-4911 | 202-225-3290 | https://cicilline.house.gov/contact-me/email-me |
Representative Jim Langevin (D - 02) | 202-225-2735 | 202-225-5976 | https://langevin.house.gov/contact-me/email-me |
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse “hasn’t
announced a position on the Iran deal yet,” according to spokesman Seth Larson.
And Chip Unruh, spokesman for Senator Jack Reed, said the ranking member of the
RI delegation, and a nationally-regarded foreign policy expert, “continues to
thoroughly review.”
As a ranking member of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, Reed has been conducting hearings on the issue with Arizona
Sen. John McCain. The Hill lists Reed in the yes column but RIPR coverage from July 16 says Reed “has not decided whether he
supports President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.” Unruh said The Hill
“must be speculating.”
Speculation or not, The Hill lists noted
progressive leaders Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders as supporting the deal.
This agreement is obviously not all that
many of us would have liked but it beats the alternative – a war with Iran that
could go on for years,” Sanders said, according to The Hill.
And quoting her from the Boston Globe,
Elizabeth Warren has said, “The question now before Congress — the only
question before Congress — is whether the recently announced nuclear agreement
represents our best available option for preventing Iran from acquiring a
nuclear weapon. I am
convinced that it does.”
Progressives have largely supported the
deal with Code Pink calling it “a great victory for peace-loving people around
the world.” The New York Times has a 200 word summary of the
deal.
Bob Plain is the editor/publisher of Rhode Island's
Future. Previously, he's worked as a reporter for several different news organizations
both in Rhode Island and across the country.