Hill, 16 Nov. 2016- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday his chamber will take up extending Iran sanctions before the end of the year.
“Yes, we are going to pass that,” McConnell told reporters, when asked about the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA). “We’re going to take up the House bill. I think it’s already held at the desk. And we’re going to pass it.”
The House voted Tuesday 419-1 to extend the ISA, currently set to expire before 2017, for 10 years.
Senate Republicans had initially hoped to pass an ISA extension as part of a broader bill of new sanctions on Iran amid lingering fallout over the Iran nuclear agreement and a string of ballistic missile tests.