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#War-Powers

Events indexed under #War-Powers — 25 entries in the record.

25 events From Dec 18, 1944 To Mar 19, 2026 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
2026-03-19Booker War Powers Resolution Fails 47-53 — Only Paul Crosses Party Lines for Yes, Fetterman for No
Sen. Cory Booker · Sen. Rand Paul · Sen. John Fetterman
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2026-03-17Senate Six Democrats Prepare to Grind Chamber to Halt Over Iran War Oversight
Sen. Adam Schiff · Sen. Cory Booker · Sen. Tim Kaine · Sen. Chris Murphy · +2
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2026-03-16Republican Leadership Actively Avoids Public Hearings on Iran War
Sen. John Thune · Senate Republicans
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2026-03-10Hegseth Announces "Most Intense Day of Strikes" on Iran as US Targets Drone Manufacturing
Pete Hegseth · Dan Caine · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Central Command · +2
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2026-03-09Senate Democrats Demand Hegseth and Rubio Testify on Iran War, Threaten Repeated War Powers Votes
Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · Tim Kaine · Chris Murphy · +8
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2026-03-08Iran Names Mojtaba Khamenei Supreme Leader After Father Killed in US-Israeli Strike
Mojtaba Khamenei · Iran Assembly of Experts · Islamic Republic of Iran · Donald Trump · +1
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2026-03-04House Rejects Iran War Powers Resolution 212-219, Completing Congress's Abdication of War Authority
Mike Johnson · Thomas Massie · Warren Davidson · Jared Golden · +6
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2026-03-04Senate Formally Defeats Iran War Powers Resolution 47-53, Ceding War Authority to Trump
Tim Kaine · Chuck Schumer · Adam Schiff · Rand Paul · +5
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2026-03-03Senate War Powers Resolution on Iran Fails as Republicans Defend Trump's Unauthorized War
Tim Kaine · Chuck Schumer · Adam Schiff · Rand Paul · +4
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2026-02-28Evangelical End-Times Theology Shapes Trump's Iran War Decision as Hagee and Huckabee Push Biblical Case for Strikes
Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Mike Huckabee · John Hagee · +2
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2026-02-28Operation Epic Fury - US and Israel Launch Massive Military Strikes on Iran
Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · CENTCOM · +3
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2026-01-08Senate Votes 52-47 to Limit Trump's Military Action in Venezuela, Five Republicans Cross Party Lines
Tim Kaine · Rand Paul · Susan Collins · Lisa Murkowski · +3
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2026-01-03US Military Invades Venezuela, Captures President Maduro in Predawn Raid
Donald Trump · Nicolas Maduro · Pete Hegseth · Delta Force · +2
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2025-12-22Venezuela Naval Blockade Kills 105 in 29 Strikes as Trump Refuses to Rule Out War
Donald Trump · Nicolas Maduro · Stephen Miller · Pete Hegseth · +3
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2025-12-18FY 2026 NDAA Repeals 1991 and 2002 Iraq AUMFs — First War-Authorization Repeal Since 1971 Serves as Cover for Capture-Relevant Bundle
U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Tim Kaine · Todd Young · +3
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2025-12-17Senate Passes $901 Billion Defense Bill with Unprecedented Oversight Provisions Targeting Hegseth
Pete Hegseth · Donald Trump · Tim Kaine · Frank Bradley · +3
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2025-10-01Trump Notifies Congress of 'Non-International Armed Conflict' with 'Unlawful Combatants' in Caribbean
Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Jack Reed
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2019-04-16Trump Vetoes Bipartisan Resolution to End U.S. Support for Saudi War in Yemen, Protecting MBS After Khashoggi Murder
Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · U.S. Congress · Saudi Arabia government
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2017-04-06Trump Orders Syria Missile Strike from Mar-a-Lago During State Dinner with Xi Jinping - Military Action as Mar-a-Lago Spectacle
Donald Trump · Xi Jinping · Bashar al-Assad · Rex Tillerson · +1
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2002-10-16WHIG Achieves Systematic Bypass of Constitutional Separation of Powers Through Congressional Deception
George W. Bush · White House Iraq Group · U.S. Congress · Constitutional Framework · +5
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2002-10-11Iraq War Authorization Vote Succeeds Through WHIG's Systematic Congressional Deception
White House Iraq Group · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Senate · Hillary Clinton · +7
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1973-11-07War Powers Resolution Enacted Over Nixon Veto: Congress Attempts to Reclaim Authority After Cambodia Bombing
Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Jacob Javits · Clement Zablocki · +2
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1964-08-10Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Signed: LBJ Receives Advance Blank-Check War Authorization, Template for Post-9/11 AUMF
Lyndon B. Johnson · Wayne Morse · Ernest Gruening · J. William Fulbright · +2
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1950-06-27Truman Commits U.S. Forces to Korean War by Executive Action Alone, Establishing 'Police Action' Precedent
Harry S. Truman · Dean Acheson · Robert Taft · U.S. Congress · +1
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1944-12-18Korematsu v. United States - Supreme Court Upholds Japanese Internment
U.S. Supreme Court · Fred Korematsu · Hugo Black · Robert Jackson · +3
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