The White House on Wednesday rejected an argument from conservatives in Congress that President Obama failed to live up to a law passed earlier this year that forces him to provide all documents to Congress on the Iran deal.
Asked about the argument Wednesday, White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz ridiculed it and implied it’s a desperate, last-ditch attempt to stop the deal.
“Sounds like a plan hatched up at Tortilla Coast on a Tuesday night,” Schultz said, referring to a local watering hole located a stone’s throw from House offices. Republicans did meet there Tuesday to discuss how to approach the Iran deal this month.
House GOP leaders on Wednesday postponed work on the resolution to disapprove the Iran nuclear deal, which Obama has repeatedly threatened to reject and gained enough Democratic votes to sustain a veto earlier this week.
Conservatives in the House are pushing Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to argue that the administration’s failure to provide documents about a side deal on inspections between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency means Congress doesn’t yet have all the details of the agreement.
Because Obama and his administration didn’t provide the documents to Congress, as an earlier law requires, these conservatives argue that the 60-day clock that Congress has to approve or disapprove the deal never began.
