Nancy Pelosi: House to trigger War Powers Resolution to limit Trump's retaliation against Iran
By Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
January 5, 2020
House Democrats will hold a vote this week to try to block President Trump from escalating the conflict with Iran, using the War Powers Resolution to impose a time limit on his military action.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the move in a letter to fellow Democrats late Sunday, calling the president’s decision to OK the assassination of Iran’s top general last week a “provocative and disproportionate” mistake.
“This action endangered our service members, diplomats and others by risking a serious escalation of tensions with Iran,” Mrs. Pelosi wrote.
Her answer is to trigger the War Powers Resolution, a 1970s-era law that lays out rules for how presidents can deploy the U.S. military in times when Congress has not declared war.
Mrs. Pelosi said the measure the House will vote on will impose a 30-day limit on military action against Iran.
It would have to pass the Senate as well. It then would face a presidential veto and would require a two-thirds vote of both chambers in order to override the veto and constrain Mr. Trump. Even if Congress cannot muster that kind of support, the House could still deliver a symbolic rebuke with its vote.
Mr. Trump officially sent notification to Congress Saturday under the War Powers Resolution that he had ordered a drone missile strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, who was head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
EDITOR’S NOTE; This is just some more Trump-hating horseshit. If this had been a Democratic president taking out Soleimani, the House Democrats would be slobbering all over themselves with praise for the president.
However, the Democrats need only four Republican senators to join them for the resolution to pass and Mitt Romney has already said he would vote with the Democrats. Now Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will have to keep Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, occasional critics of Trump, from joining Romney. If they jump ship, it is likely that some other Republican senator(s) will too.
3 comments:
Ya, good old Mitt. Can't believe I actually would have voted for that guy. Instead, what we got was that orange haired maniac.
MAGA.
The senate has all the cards. There is no bill of impeachment before the senate. I can't imagine how the house can compel them to do anything, especially when there is no bill to act on.
As for Mitt, he made a good impression on me years ago when he pulled the Olympics out of the crapper. The last few years, at least as far as Trump is concerned, he has become unhinged. Kind of similar to McCain. Damn shame.
Turns out Mitch speaks out of both sides of his mouth. His fake twitter account proves that he can't be trusted.
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