War Powers

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Senate war-powers floor debate opens with bipartisan amendment stack

Senate floor debate on the bipartisan war-powers overhaul opened Tuesday morning, with a structured amendment stack that includes proposals from both Republican and Democratic senators.

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VA secretary testifies as Senate Appropriations clears war supplemental with mental-health add

Senate Appropriations reported the $94.1 billion war supplemental to the floor on a 23-5 vote Tuesday after a bruising hearing in which Veterans Affairs Secretary Patrick Hagan acknowledged a backlog of more than 11,000 unresolved post-deployment claims from the Iran campaign.

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Discharge petition clears 218 as House forces war powers vote over Johnson objection

House Democrats and a bloc of Republicans pushed the Iran war powers discharge petition past 218 signatures Monday afternoon, triggering the seven-day clock that forces a floor vote no later than May 19 and stripping Speaker Mike Johnson of the scheduling leverage he has used since the Senate cleared the resolution May 1.

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Senate clears $94 billion war supplemental, shifting Iran fight to the House

The Senate cleared a $94.6 billion Iran war supplemental late Friday by 67-33, sending to a divided House a package that bundles munitions replenishment with the certification language the White House has spent two weeks trying to strip.

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Senators Unveil War Powers Overhaul, Citing Iran Conflict Lessons

A bipartisan Senate group unveiled legislation Thursday to tighten the executive branch's authority to wage extended military operations, framing the Iran conflict as the clearest argument for reform since the 2001 AUMF.

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House passes narrowed Iran war commission as Johnson loses 39 Republicans

A 257-176 House vote established a 10-member bipartisan commission to investigate the conduct of the spring war with Iran, with 39 Republicans crossing the aisle and Speaker Mike Johnson voting present.

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House passes Iran war commission resolution as 37 Republicans cross the aisle

The House on Wednesday adopted the Holloway resolution establishing an independent commission to investigate the conduct of the U.S. war against Iran, 248-184, after 37 Republicans broke with leadership on a measure Speaker Mike Johnson had tried for three weeks to bottle up.

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Johnson faces Tuesday conference revolt as House takes up war supplemental markup

House Republicans split openly Tuesday as Speaker Mike Johnson convened a closed-door conference meeting to corral votes for the $89.4 billion war supplemental and decide whether to schedule a floor vote on the Senate-passed war powers resolution before Memorial Day.

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House Democrats file war powers discharge petition as Johnson loses procedural cover

House Democrats filed a discharge petition Monday to force a floor vote on the Senate-passed Iran war powers resolution, opening the week with 174 signatures and a public commitment from at least six Republicans to add their names by Wednesday.

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Johnson huddles with leadership as House Republicans weigh combined rule on war powers, supplemental

Speaker Mike Johnson gathered his leadership team in the Capitol on Saturday to map a path through three converging Iran-war votes, with the most actively discussed option a single rule pairing the Senate-passed war powers resolution, the Holloway commission and the $89.4 billion supplemental.

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Senate passes war powers resolution as supplemental clears first floor test

The Senate passed the Kaine-Lee war powers resolution 58-42 on Friday and advanced an $89.4 billion war supplemental past a procedural hurdle, leaving Speaker Mike Johnson to manage two politically combustible votes before the Memorial Day recess.

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Iran war commission discharge petition crosses 218, forcing House vote

A House discharge petition seeking to create an independent Iran war commission cleared the 218-signature threshold Thursday morning after four Republicans added their names, stripping Speaker Mike Johnson of his ability to keep the measure off the floor.

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Senate passes war powers resolution 58-42 as five Republicans cross the aisle

The Senate voted 58-42 late Tuesday to adopt the Kaine-Murphy war powers resolution rebuking the executive conduct of the six-week Iran war, with five Republicans joining nearly every Democrat in the chamber's first formal verdict on the conflict.

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Senate clears war powers resolution as six Republicans break with Trump

Senators voted 54-46 Tuesday evening to advance the Kaine-Murphy war powers resolution on Iran, a wider-than-expected bipartisan margin that delivers President Trump the first significant rebuke of his second-term foreign policy and complicates the parallel fight over the $89 billion war supplemental.

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Johnson faces restive conference as war powers resolution clears Senate procedural hurdle

Speaker Mike Johnson opened a conference-wide meeting Monday to settle the fate of the $89 billion war supplemental as a Senate war powers resolution cleared its first procedural test, intensifying pressure on a Republican majority already split on Iran policy.

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Sunday Shows Turn on War Powers Vote as Trump Team Counters With Economic Message

With a Senate war powers vote set for the coming week and the AI moratorium freshly dead in committee, the Sunday political shows became the first big stress test of how Washington intends to litigate the Iran war after the shooting stopped.

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Sunday Shows Pivot From War to Bills as Doha Exchange Resets Political Fight

The first Sunday talk shows after the Doha prisoner exchange found Washington arguing less over whether the Iran war is over and more over what its bills, its commission and its war powers fight should look like.

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House Democrats File Resolution to Create Independent Commission on Iran War

Sixty-one House Democrats and four Republicans introduced a resolution Friday establishing a 9/11-style commission to review intelligence, strike decisions and casualty management during the six-week Iran war, intensifying a post-ceasefire fight over accountability.

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Senate Democrats Press White House for War Powers Vote as Ceasefire Holds

Senate Democrats on Thursday demanded an up-or-down vote on a war powers resolution covering the six-week Iran conflict, arguing the ceasefire that took effect Wednesday should not foreclose congressional review of how the war was waged.

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House Leaders Set War Powers Vote for Thursday as Ceasefire Deadline Scrambles Whip Counts

House leaders scheduled a Thursday floor vote on the Senate-passed Iran war powers resolution, setting up an extraordinary clash with the White House just hours after the Islamabad ceasefire is due to take effect.

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White House Presses Senate to Drop War Cutoff as Ceasefire Recasts Supplemental Fight

The White House on Monday urged Senate negotiators to strip a Sept. 30 combat cutoff from the $67.4 billion Iran war supplemental, arguing the weekend's ceasefire announcement had made the deadline both unnecessary and destabilizing as the truce approaches.

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Senate Passes Iran War Powers Resolution 56-43 in Bipartisan Rebuke as Trump Prepares Veto

The Senate passed the Kaine-Lee-Murphy war powers resolution 56-43 on Friday, the chamber's sharpest institutional pushback against the Iran war to date, even as the White House signaled a veto and pointed to fragile Islamabad talks.

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Senate Floor Takes Up Iran War Supplemental as War Powers Vote Looms

The Senate opened floor debate Thursday on the Trump administration's $67.4 billion Iran war supplemental, with a separate war powers resolution from Sens. Kaine, Lee and Murphy on a parallel track that leadership now expects to reach a vote by Friday.

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Senate Appropriators Advance Iran War Supplemental as Casualty Toll Tops 350

Senate appropriators moved the $67.4 billion Iran war supplemental out of committee Monday on a 19-9 vote, even as the U.S. service-member death toll passed 350 and lawmakers in both parties pressed for a binding vote on war authority.

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Sunday Shows Turn on War Aims as Senators Press White House for Iran Endgame

Senators from both parties used Sunday morning television to press the Trump administration for a clearer Iran war strategy, as the U.S. casualty count approached 340 and Islamabad talks reached a delicate phase.

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Bipartisan Senate Bloc Revives War Powers Push as Iran Casualties Mount

A bipartisan group of senators introduced a War Powers resolution Thursday seeking to limit the president's authority to expand U.S. military operations in the Iran conflict, citing mounting American casualties and the absence of a formal authorization.

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White House Sends $67 Billion Iran War Supplemental to Congress

The Trump administration formally transmitted a $67.4 billion emergency supplemental request to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to fund the ongoing Iran war, setting up a politically explosive vote that will collide with the still-unresolved DHS shutdown and a pending House war powers resolution.

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House Democrats File War Powers Resolution as Iran Casualty Count Tops 300

A bloc of House Democrats introduced a privileged war powers resolution Monday demanding a vote within 15 calendar days to end U.S. combat operations against Iran, citing more than 300 American service members wounded since the war's onset.

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