Posted on 02/11/2020 10:25:33 AM PST by karpov
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is urging senators to reject efforts to rein in President Trump's ability to take military action against Iran without congressional approval.
The Senate is expected to vote this week on a resolution from Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) that would require Trump to end any military hostilities against Tehran within 30 days.
"I will strongly oppose our colleague's effort and urge the Senate to defeat it," McConnell said from the Senate floor.
McConnell argued that the Kaine resolution is "blunt and clumsy" and would "severely limit the U.S. military's operational flexibility to defend itself against threats posed by Iran."
"The ill-conceived potshots at presidential authorities in the wake of a strike that succeeded using the blunt instrument of a war powers resolution is no substitute at all for answering these broader questions" on foreign policy strategy, McConnell said.
The Senate is expected to start debate on the war powers resolution on Wednesday.
Kaine has the four GOP votes necessary for the resolution to pass initially, with Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) expected to support it.
But both Kaine and Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the chief Senate Republican vote counter, suggested Democrats could pick up additional GOP votes, depending on the final language of the resolution.
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It will face a presidential veto.
Headline is wrong.
POTUS Trump will Veto the Bill, so why are they wasting their time?
I doubt the Senate and the House have a 2/3rds Majority to overcome a Veto.
CORRECT. Like Impeachment you need 67 votes.
Not going to happen. MORE time wasting in Congress.
Not that it would ever get to SCOTUS but it would lose there as well.
This just gives Senators a chance to bloviate.
Just more kabuki theater from the Democrats and RINOs. Its going nowhere.
I’m in suspenders wonderin’ how Mittwit will vote.
“Killing Soleimani, who was responsible for the deaths and maiming of many Americans, was justified.”
Not according to Tulsi Gabbard. She thinks President Trump should have gone to Congress to get permission to kill Soleimani.
Killing Soleimani was much more than a response to a few Americans killed. His apparent death was the horsehead in the bed to others watching and not even really to those in Tehran. I suspect that though his death will be quickly forgotten by historians it may yet prove that his death saved thousands, possibly millions, not all Americans. The world owes Trump and the military team behind him a great deal of respect for debts that are now less likely to occur and hopefully never really have to understand.
Misleading headline
It should be obvious that the democrat party owes a great debt to the iranians, and for that reason opposes what Trump is doing to keep us safe from them.
Bammy repaid the iranians by giving them 150 billion of our money.
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