{"id":269635,"date":"2016-09-26T14:37:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T14:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-congressional-leaders-vow-to-override-obamas-veto-of-911-bill\/"},"modified":"2016-09-26T14:37:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T14:37:21","slug":"us-congressional-leaders-vow-to-override-obamas-veto-of-911-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-congressional-leaders-vow-to-override-obamas-veto-of-911-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"US congressional leaders vow to override Obama\u2019s veto of 9\/11 bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US congressional leaders from both political parties have vowed to swiftly override President Barack Obama\u2019s veto of\u00a0legislation that allows victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to sue Saudi Arabia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his veto message, Obama said Friday that the &#8220;Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act,&#8221; or JASTA, which was passed in Congress on September 9, would be \u201cdetrimental\u201d to America&#8217;s national security interests and its key alliances.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation \u201cdoes not enhance the safety of Americans from terrorist attacks, and undermines core US interests,\u201d Obama said, adding that the victims\u2019 families will not be able to gain justice through the bill either.<\/p>\n<p>Some lawmakers called immediately for Congress to override the veto, which requires a two-thirds vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing the president chose to veto legislation unanimously passed by Congress and overwhelmingly supported by the American people,\u201d said Senator John Cornyn, a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/09\/26\/486491\/US-Congress-Saudi-911-bill-veto\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US congressional leaders from both political parties have vowed to swiftly override President Barack Obama\u2019s veto of\u00a0legislation that allows victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to sue Saudi Arabia. In his veto message, Obama said Friday that the &#8220;Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act,&#8221; or JASTA, which was passed in Congress on September [&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-269635","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\/269635","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=269635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}