article_snippet.sent: White House, sensing a legislative defeat was nigh, today said President Barack Obama would be willing to meet Congress half way and sign legislation codifying sign legislation codifying its role in processing a nuclear deal with Iran if a Senate committee axed key portions of the bill during a formal review this afternoon role in processing a nuclear deal with Iran if a Senate committee axed key portions of the bill during a formal review this afternoon.
article_snippet.sent: The Obama administration was in panic-mode this week, trying to strike a last-minute deal with legislators on both sides of the aisle that would satisfy The Obama administration concerns with bill, which White House had said as recently as yesterday that the president would 'absolutely' veto as written.
article_snippet.sent: 'If we arrived at a place where the bill that is passed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with bipartisan support is essentially is a vote to vote later on congressional sanctions - not the decision about whether or not to enter into the agreement - that would certainly resolve some of the concerns we've expressed about the authority that is exercised by the President of the United States to conduct foreign policy,' White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
article_snippet.sent: And if presented with a compromise along the lines that I just laid out here, that would be the kind of compromise the president would be willing to sign,' the president said.
article_snippet.sent: White House spokesman Josh Earnest later indicated that the president's signature would be predicated on senators watering the bill that is passed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with bipartisan support down to just a vote to later vote on congressional sanctions and the inclusion of language that would make clear the proper role of congressional oversight. '
article_snippet.sent: If the president were writing this piece of legislation the president were writing this piece of legislation would look substantially different,' the president said, noting that the president didn't want to leave reporters with the impression that even in senators were 'willing to agree to this substantial number of changes that I've laid out here, that we're gonna be particularly thrilled about the legislation that emerges. '
article_snippet.sent: I rather think what we would find we with is the kind of compromise that the president would be willing to sign,' White House spokesman Josh Earnest explained.
article_snippet.sent: The White House, sensing a legislative defeat was nigh, today said President Barack Obama would be willing to meet Congress half way and sign legislation codifying sign legislation codifying its role in processing a nuclear deal with Iran if a Senate committee axed key portions of the bill during a formal review this afternoon role in processing a nuclear deal with Iran if a Senate committee axed key portions of the bill during a formal review this afternoon.
highlights_snippet.sent: Sensing a legislative defeat White House said the president would be willing to sign the bill if senators axed key portions of senators Iran bill .
  