Senate Joins House in Calling for Stop to US War on Iran

The Senate voted 50-48 to adopt a concurrent resolution by Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, D-N.Y., that the House had adopted by a 215-208 margin earlier this month. 

Image: Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, left, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, seen at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on June 2, were among four Republicans who backed the measure. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

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John M. Donnelly of Roll Call reports: “The Senate voted on Tuesday to adopt a House-approved war powers resolution calling for a halt to any additional military action against Iran that Congress has not authorized.

The Senate voted 50-48 to adopt a concurrent resolution by Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, D-N.Y., that the House had adopted by a 215-208 margin earlier this month.

Concurrent resolutions do not go to the president for a signature, and so are widely seen as nonbinding…”

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