Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced Monday that the Senate would vote on Wednesday to override President Obama’s veto of legislation that would allow people to sue Saudi Arabia over the Sept. 11 attacks.
McConnell announced the vote as the first order of business, just a few days after Obama’s veto on Friday.
The Obama administration has opposed the legislation as something that would complicate U.S.-Saudi relations.
But the bill passed easily in both the House and the Senate, and a two-thirds majority is likely in both chambers to override Obama’s veto. Supporters of the bill say the Sept. 11 hijackers got help from Saudi Arabia, and that the government should therefore be subject to legal challenge by families of the victims.
