A high-ranking GOP lawmaker predicts that President Obama will use the “bully pulpit” to pressure lawmakers into backing a yet-to-be-seen deal to restrict Iran’s nuclear program.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.), a former chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, wants her colleagues to buck the White House on what she calls a “very weak deal,” but is bracing for Congress to approve it. The Republican says Democratic lawmakers will buckle after Obama presents stark options to the public about the deal — due by June 30.
{mosads}”The president has so much power, he’s got the bully pulpit, and he’s gonna tell everybody in all of our communities that if your member of Congress isn’t for this deal, then that member of Congress wants to go to war with Iran. That’s not true. So I’m afraid of the president using the megaphone that he has to get members of Congress to go with him on this very weak deal,” the Foreign Affairs Middle East and Central Asia subcommittee chairwoman tells The Hill’s Molly K. Hooper.
Watch the video above to hear Ros-Lehtinen in her own words.