The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Stab Air Force General Dan Caine discusses the mission details of a strike against Iran during a press conference in Pentagon on June 22, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The US Senate rejected Friday, 47-53, a resolution written by Virginia Democrat Tim Kaine to block American armed forces from hostility to Iran.
Although A shaky ceasefire agreement Between Iran and Israel, this week has the urgency of the vote, supporter of, somewhat reduced the solution During the ground debate on Friday, two essential arguments made: Congress should rethink its constitutional role as the only government branch that can tend to war and the US policy towards Iran more to diplomacy.
“We all agree that Iran cannot receive a nuclear weapon,” said the Democrat of Maryland, Chris van Hollen. “But bombing raids are not the best and most sustainable way of achieving this goal. And nothing, nothing that I heard yesterday in the (classified) secret service briefing.
The vote was almost a party line, with John Fettermans John Fetterman from Pennsylvania the only democrat against the measure and Rand of Paul von Kentucky, the only Republican.
Supporters argue for the role of the congress
The US armed forces dropped bombs on three Iranian nuclear enrichment locations on June 21 in the middle of the war war with Israel.
President Donald Trump won an unrestricted victory, although the reporting on the evaluation of the secret services showed that the result was not conclusive and that the nuclear program of the Iranian nuclear program could only reset a question of months.
Military and secret service officers presented the classified briefing to the members of the congress on Thursday.
Kaine, who consistently asked the President to win the approval of the congress before taking offensive military measures, said the Framer deliberately gave the authority to the congress.
“The war is a problem that is too big to leave even a completely careful and advisory person in their hands,” said Kaine. “The Framer did not want to leave the war in the hands of George Washington, for God’s sake. They thought that the congress should be involved.”
After the vote, Kaine said in a written explanation that he was upset about the senators who were with no.
“I am disappointed that many of my colleagues are not ready to get up and say that the congress has to be part of a decision that is as important as the question of whether the United States should send the sons and daughters of our nation or not to fight against Iran,” he said.
Paul, who has often been constitutional with his party with regard to the executive authority and other topics, demonstrated a constitutional argument and criticized foreign policy, which leads to vigorous military engagement.
“The American people are fed up with sending their children to fight and die in war zones on the other side of the world without being at stake,” he said. “Our constitutional responsibility through the permission of the executive, US troops unilaterally in war is an insult to the constitution and the American people.”
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Opponents of the resolution argued that she would unnecessarily bind the hands of the president on war issues.
The process that is necessary for the congress to approve military measures would be too long to be practical, said the Republican of South Carolina, Lindsey Graham.
“Just think of the chaos that would follow in this country if there was not a commander -in -chief, but 535, and we had to sit down and talk to ourselves and discuss whether we should take action with the military operation in question,” he said. “That would paralyze this country.”
The Republican Bill Hagerty from Tennessee said that the operation was a success and the decision to organize it is basic to do as a commander -in -chief as commander -in -chief. Iran was hostile to the United States and its ally, Israel for decades, he said.
“President Trump’s actions last weekend did not start a war,” said Haggerty. “His actions ended a war, and not a single American life was lost. We should not discuss here how we can limit effective living, but to discuss how we can recognize and support effective leadership.”
The power of a president undermines the ability to operate the surprise element that is of crucial importance for newfangled warfare, added Hagerty.
The solution “increases the process of common sense, politics and the political optics about the surgical necessity,” he said.
