The Iran-Contra affair was the effort to oust President Regan for selling arms to Iran and using the money to fund the anti-communist rebels, or Contras, in Nicaragua.
For background information, read here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair
I don't remember congress debating or voting on this arms deal. Maybe they did & I missed it.
But here we are twenty five years later and the media has completely lost interest in the US sending arms to rebels or, in this case, probable enemies.