Cotton won’t back off Iran amendment

Published April 28, 2016 8:18pm ET



Senate Democrats again blocked a $37.5 billion energy and water funding bill from advancing Thursday over an Iran-related amendment.

However, Republican leadership isn’t backing down from the fight, scheduling another vote when the upper chamber returns from recess. And the Republican senator whose amendment Democrats call a “poison pill” is refusing to back down from his proposal.

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