Reply #3: Reid: Let's have a real investigation and a vote here in the Senate,''

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.....Democrats accused the president of prematurely determining the outcome of an investigation that the administration should have done in the first place.

``Let's have a real investigation and a vote here in the Senate,'' said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. ``What the president has agreed to is no review.''

``If the investigation proves to be a charade, if it's not truly independent and thorough, then the bipartisan legislation that we introduced yesterday will pass through the Senate and the House like a hot knife through butter,'' Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said.

Lawmakers said the political uproar could have been avoided if the White House had kept lawmakers in the loop on the DP World deal.