{"id":242996,"date":"2016-05-11T22:48:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T22:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senate-democrats-beat-republicans-in-iran-heavy-water-amendment\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T22:48:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T22:48:43","slug":"senate-democrats-beat-republicans-in-iran-heavy-water-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senate-democrats-beat-republicans-in-iran-heavy-water-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats beat Republicans in Iran heavy water amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"63\">\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>US Senate Democrats have emerged victorious in their efforts to block an anti-Iran amendment\u00a0offered by Republicans in relation to a ban on purchase of heavy water from Tehran.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The Senate fell short of three votes Wednesday to pass an amendment to a\u00a0bill that would have barred the United States from buying Iran\u2019s heavy water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Offered by Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton, the amendment received 57 yes votes and 42 no votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The amendment was part of a $37.5 billion energy and water spending bill that had been stuck in the Senate over the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Prior to the vote, the bill\u2019s sponsor, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), said a decision the bill would clear the path for it to move forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cI believe we ought to be easily able to finish the bill today,\u201d he said. \u201cI think we should finish it today.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Last month, the US said it would spend around $8 million to buy heavy water from Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The Republican measure was part of the party\u2019s&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/05\/11\/465126\/iran-heavy-water-us-senate\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Senate Democrats have emerged victorious in their efforts to block an anti-Iran amendment\u00a0offered by Republicans in relation to a ban on purchase of heavy water from Tehran. The Senate fell short of three votes Wednesday to pass an amendment to a\u00a0bill that would have barred the United States from buying Iran\u2019s heavy water. Offered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-242996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}