Kerry to face Congress on Iran for 2nd day

John Kerry is scheduled to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee at 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT), and before the House Appropriations subcommittee at 2 p.m. EST.

He is expected to face tough questions on a possible nuclear agreement with Iran. Yesterday he faced a skeptical Senate committee.

“The president has made clear — I can’t state this more firmly — the policy is Iran will not get a nuclear weapon,” he told members of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. “And anybody running around right now, jumping in to say, ‘Well, we don’t like the deal,’ or this or that, doesn’t know what the deal is. There is no deal yet. And I caution people to wait and see what these negotiations produce.”

US Secretary of State John Kerry testifies before the Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Agencies on the fiscal year 2016 funding request for the State Department on February 24, 2015 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGAN)