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Posted on 03/05/2026 5:54:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
he Republican-led House on Thursday rejected a measure aimed at blocking President Donald Trump from carrying out further military strikes on Iran without congressional approval, delivering a victory for the White House even as lawmakers voice deep unease about the widening conflict.
The War Powers Resolution, introduced by Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, failed in a 212-219 vote after Republican leaders rallied enough support to defeat it, allowing the Administration to continue its military campaign against Iran for now without seeking new authorization from Congress.
All House Democrats voted for the resolution except for Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas, Jared Golden of Maine, Greg Landsman of Ohio, and Juan Vargas of California. Reps. Warren Davidson of Ohio and Thomas Massie of Kentucky joined the majority of Democrats as the only Republicans voting in favor of it.
The House vote came a day after the Senate blocked a similar effort led by Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia. That measure failed to clear a procedural hurdle in a 47–53 vote largely along party lines, with most Republicans opposing it and most Democrats backing it.
Taken together, the two votes amounted to the first test of whether Congress was willing to curb a conflict that Trump initiated without first seeking their approval. The outcome made clear it is not, at least for now.
Even if both chambers had approved the resolution, Trump was expected to veto it. Overriding a presidential veto requires two-thirds support in both chambers, and Congress has never overridden a presidential veto of a war powers resolution. That made Thursday’s vote in the House a largely symbolic rebuke of the President’s actions rather than a practical one, a test of whether enough Republicans were willing to buck party leadership to advance the measure.
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The War Powers Resolution, passed in 1973 in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, was designed to check precisely that kind of unilateral action.
It requires the President to notify Congress within 48 hours of introducing U.S. forces into hostilities and bars armed forces from remaining in such conflicts for more than 60 days—with a possible 30-day extension—without a declaration of war or specific authorization for the use of military force. It also allows any member of Congress to force a vote on a resolution directing the removal of U.S. forces.
Iran is the eighth country the U.S. military has struck during Trump’s second term.
Too bad you stinking RATs. Can’t hang you as traitors but I can drink up on your liberal tears.
They back him for military war but not economic war. Where are the tariffs bills? uh huh.
Inconvenient fact for the propaganda bots
There War Powers Act has never ben subject to a Constitutional challenge. The notion that Congress can pass law without the President signature is a significant departure from the US Constitution.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4369035/posts Rep Thomas Massie receiving the Quincy award from Trita Parsi, an actual Iranian lobbyist, alongside progressive Democrat Ro Khanna.
In the Senate, Fetterman, Collins, Murkowski, and McConnell all voted NAY.
Yes, but Rand Paul voted Yea.
How many legal days left for this sh!tshow in the face of lobbing missiles, granted at strategic targets on a thin surface that matters not in terms of defeating the “Center of Gravity”, however war powers BS act until Congress has a say (Which Congress should have the Supreme CONSTITUTIONAL Voice in deciding warfare)? These book selling “Christians” love this crap about “End Times” stuff that fills Trump’s coffers but is this actually a Just War eloquently defined by Augustine/Aquinas or just killing people and serving interests that is not of Christ’s commands?
Dude, you’re all over the map.
CC
I will explain it to you.
Since the 1980s the US has been embroiled with the ME tar baby because the free flow of oil out of the gulf is critical to the health of the US Economy. Allow anyone hostile to control the oil and they control the world’s economy
So the US has spent trillions of dollars and thousands of lives trying to maintain stability in the Middle East and keep the oil flowing.
The Iranian mullahs have been the biggest threat to that stability. They fund terrorists groups all over the region. They try to overthrow governments from Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and Egypt in order to put their puppet groups in power. Iran has been funding and providing weapons to kill Americans for decades. They been counterfeiting our currency and using it to buy influence around the ME against us.
Our “geniuses” in DC response from DC to all this was “Contain Iran”
Them along come 0bama who decided he can buy peace with Iran. He gives them billions and relaxes sanction. His puppet Biden givens them even more billions in a vain attempt to buy peace.
So we have a well funded hostile regime in Iran, on the verge of getting nukes, who made it clear they are more then willing to screw with the stability of the region.
Containment failed, Appeasement failed, DC has no effective strategy on how to deal with a hostile Iran. Then the Iranian Resistance showed it can mobilize millions of Iranians against the regime. The IPP is a very smart plan on how to replace the Mullahs with a secular Democracy
So the time is ripe for one hard punch to topple the criminal Islamic regime in Iran before it gets nuclear weapons and dominates most of the worlds oil supply.
But I know, your sort of “It’s the joos fault” cultists cannot pry you heads out of your asses long enough to grasp any facts that challenge your infantile ignorance and mindless bigotry.
Define “center of gravity”. If you define it as The Iranian dictatorship, they’ve been at war with us for 47 years and are an inherently destabilizing force in the region. Their departure as a political and military force would be a net positive for both the region and the world. I would love to see an Iranian secular democracy, but a militarily neutered Iran works for me too. The fact that other countries in the region have figured out Iran in the hands of the mullahs and IRGC is not in their best interests is a positive political shift.
CC
Deterrence of a potentially fatal first strike by opponents cannot exist if the president is required to seek congressional approval before retaliation.
Even deterrence of conventional attack, for example across the spell Fulda Gap during the Cold War, cannot be effectively deterred if the president cannot maintain that he might initiate atomic strikes in the event of such an attack.
The War Powers act is an attempt to amend the Constitution by statute, or rather an attempt to update the Constitution by statute.
As such it is itself unconstitutional but it serves a very important constitutional service in a political science sense: it constrains the president to some degree from unwise adventures by at least forcing him to justify making war. I cannot conceive of living in a society in which the president can unilaterally wage war, even if only until the money runs out, without some sort of public forum of accountability.
We had some disagreements before (Minor) but I really respect your fundamentals concerning harnessing the influence of the State. ‘The People’ need a say in all of this very soon.
When was last time Congress declaring war?
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