November 28, 2018
"MOM, I GOT ANOTHER FIRST!":
The Senate Just Took the Biggest Step Yet Toward Ending U.S. Support for the Yemen War (MILES KAMPF-LASSIN AND SARAH LAZARE, 11/28/18, IN These Times)
The Senate voted 63-37 in favor of holding a debate on Senate Joint Resolution 54-introduced by Sens.Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). The measure invokes the War Powers Resolution of 1973 to force a vote to "remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities in or affecting the Republic of Yemen." This is the first time a chamber of Congress has advanced a bill War Powers Resolution, and it marks a considerable victory for opponents of the war, whose previous efforts to debate the resolution narrowly failed in the Senate in March after 10 Democrats came out in opposition.
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 28, 2018 6:07 PM