Breaking: The House passed a largely symbolic war powers resolution that will seek to limit what military action President Trump can take against Iran.
With Thursday’s House vote to limit President Trump’s military actions against Iran, Congress took its latest stab at reaffirming its constitutional authority to declare war, part of a long-standing power struggle between the executive and legislative branches that has only grown murkier as the nature of global conflicts has changed.
At the same time, only four times has Congress agreed to grant the president the authority to use military force since the War Powers Act passed: in Lebanon in 1983, in the Persian Gulf in 1991, and twice after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. “Congress is missing in action,” said Rep. Barbara Lee , the only member to oppose the 2001 authorization. She has led attempts to repeal it. “It may be just not wanting to cast a hard vote.”
But questions have long lingered over the extent to which the president can engage the military in a conflict without consulting the legislative branch. Congress last formally exercised its authority granted in the Constitution to declare war in 1941 with the United States’ entry into World War II. The Iran resolution that passed the Democratic-controlled House on Thursday has a chance of passing the Senate, but the type of resolution the House chose to use, called a concurrent resolution, may not hold the full force of law. The War Powers Act of 1973 allows Congress to use this avenue, but because this type of resolution does not have to be signed by the president, it’s largely symbolic.
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