A guide to Congress' upside-down vote on Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional proceedings are routinely convoluted, often inscrutable and sometimes bizarre. Even by those standards, the upcoming vote on the Iran nuclear deal stands out as particularly bewildering.
It's a situation, by design, where the Democratic minority will rule the Republican majority.
The winners of the initial vote will end up the losers.
And President Barack Obama stands to be repudiated by at least one chamber of Congress on his top foreign policy priority — yet will emerge triumphant in the end.
A guide to a peculiarly only-in-Washington spectacle, coming this week to the floor of the House and Senate.___
WHAT'S THE DEAL?
At issue is the agreement signed in July by the U.S.