Kasich: Senate Republicans Need To Use Nuclear Option on Iran Deal

‘That being that they should declare this a big constitutional issue and whether this agreement is put into effect or not, it ought to be decided by 51 votes, not by 60 votes or some filibuster’

KASICH: "Yes, I think — I think there is, Jake. Look, you and I both understand Capitol Hill. And we know there’s certain decorum, particularly in the United States Senate. But frankly, I think they ought to go to the nuclear option in the United States Senate, that being that they should declare this a big constitutional issue and whether this agreement is put into effect or not, it ought to be decided by 51 votes, not by 60 votes or some filibuster. And some people would say well, that’s not really good. Well, this has happened before on the passage of judges. And when it comes to a treaty this critical, one that I so strongly oppose, I think the Republicans in the Senate ought to say that we are not going to permit this to be blocked because of a filibuster. There ought to be a vote and there ought to be extreme measures taken in the United States Senate to achieve it. It is really critical. And if that happens, then the Senate will have its say. The president may veto it. And then the American people will have more to say, because I don’t meet many American people — many people here in the country who like this agreement. They think it endangers our allies and us."

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