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Senate Fails To Advance Iran War Powers Resolution (news.antiwar.com)
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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/57403

The Senate on Tuesday failed to advance a War Powers Resolution that would direct President Trump to end hostilities against Iran that haven’t been authorized by Congress and prevent the president from restarting the full-scale war against the Islamic Republic. A motion to discharge the resolution out of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee failed on […]

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[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

Another reason the bicameral legislature exists. To impede democracy and the will of the people, to grandstand and give another opportunity to pretend to care but get stopped by the "system" or the "rules". To give another avenue to trade off who's the bad guy via the obfuscation of bureaucracy and politics.