article_snippet: We as leaders should do everything We as leaders can to ensure these negotiations have a chance to succeed.
article_snippet: Republicans and some Democrats want Congress to have a vote on any agreement.
article_snippet: The pact the bargainers are working on does not actually require congressional approval, however, because it is not a treaty, which would require a two-thirds majority Senate vote to be ratified.
article_snippet: Last week Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, postponed action on legislation that would give Congress a vote on any deal that emerges.
article_snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delayed the measure in the face of solid Democratic opposition to moving ahead on the bill now, just weeks before an end-of-March deadline for negotiators to produce an outline of an agreement.
article_snippet: I think President Barack Obama cannot work around Congress forever,' Mitch McConnell said.
article_snippet: The next negotiations are scheduled for March 15, and wide gaps remain between the two sides.