CBS, 24 July 2015
Lobbying efforts around the Iran nuclear deal are kicking into high gear and will only intensify over the next 60 days. With tens of millions of dollars being spent to stop the administrations’ efforts, some are calling it the mother of all congressional fights, according to CBS News.
President Obama has threatened to veto any bill that rejects the Iran accord, but he needs support from his own party to prevent a possible override.
On Thursday, Mr. Obama met about a dozen undecided house Democrats, including Rep. Adam Schiff.
“I’m going to try to tune out the external, you know, over the airways campaigning, (and) really dig into the merits and decide on the merits,” Schiff said.
Separately, a group supporting Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential bid has spent more than $4 million on ads to fight the nuclear accord.
To put the estimated $40 million budget devoted to that cause in perspective, one watchdog group told CBS News that gun advocacy groups spent just half that to defeat gun control legislation after the Sandy Hook shooting.