[Peace-discuss] Senate debate on war powers: Who will undercut the War Powers Resolution?

[Robert Naiman]

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Senate debate on war powers: Who will undercut the War Powers Resolution?

The Senate is debating and voting on war powers today. Apparently the final
vote is at 1:45, and votes on amendments start at 10:30.

Here's a link to watch the floor proceedings:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?469316-1/senate-session

If you've never watched this sort of thing before, sometimes there's a lot
of nothing and then something, so the trick is to have it on and multitask
while you wait for something to happen. :)

Here's something that the Forces of Progress are watching for in the debate
that we hope to not see: Senators, especially on "our side," claiming that
you need a 2/3 vote of both houses of Congress to stop an unconstitutional
war.

The reason we don't want to see Senators saying this, especially Senators
on "our side," is because in March, we're going to try to force a vote in
the House on a concurrent Yemen War Powers Resolution. "Concurrent" means
that it's not presented to Trump for signature, so Trump can't veto it.
We're going to claim that under Section 5c of the War Powers Resolution,
such a concurrent resolution is binding. And therefore, that we only need a
simple majority of the House and Senate to stop the Yemen war.

So we don't want Senators, especially Senators on "our side," to undercut
what we intend to do in the House in March.

That was the point of this petition:

Senators: Don’t Cede Power to Trump in the Iran War Powers Debate
https://www.change.org/p/senators-don-t-cede-power-to-trump-in-the-iran-war-powers-debate
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