article_snippet: When a letter says that Congress could actually modify the terms of an agreement at any time is flat wrong,' said Kerry, who once chaired the committ he addressed on Wednedsay. '
article_snippet: You don't have the right to modify an agreement reached executive to executive between leaders of a country.'
article_snippet: Formal treaties require ratification by two-thirds of Senate, but 'the vast majority of international arrangements and agreements do not,' Kerry said. '
article_snippet: Senate warned that 'the next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time.'
article_snippet: Number two, it's incorrect when it says that Congress could actually modify the terms of an agreement at any time.
article_snippet: They don't have the right to modify an agreement reached executive to executive between leaders.'
article_snippet: Congress, too, wields a threat: new forms of economic punishment of Iran that would be forbidden in the agreement.
article_snippet: But such a move would almost surely require overriding a presidential veto and could pin any diplomatic collapse on U.S..
article_snippet: Making such a declaration would amount to telling Congress that Congress won't have a say on an accord with President Barack Obama's team, because it is not a treaty, but that the United Nations' top body.
highlights_snippet: Insisted Congress can't have a say in the terms of a nuclear deal with Tehran because the agreement won't be 'legally binding' in the first place .
  