{"id":64549,"date":"2026-05-20T08:40:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=64549"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:40:27","slug":"huge-senate-adopts-war-powers-act-with-gop-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=64549","title":{"rendered":"<h1><b>HUGE!!! Senate Adopts War Powers Act with GOP Support<\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Renee Parsons<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Late in the afternoon as attention was focused on whether Rep. Tom Massie (R-Ky.) would retain his House seat in Kentucky, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) offered SJ Res. 185 to the Senate floor for the eighth vote to require the 1973 Vote Powers Act.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Resolution <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_votes\/vote1192\/vote_119_2_00129.htm#position\"><span class=\"s1\">passed on a 50-47 vote<\/span><\/a> with four Republicans voting in favor of War Powers while three GOP Senators did not cast their vote.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The four Republicans were Sen. Susan Collins (R-Me.) Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A two-term incumbent, Cassidy had just been resoundingly defeated in a Republican Senate Primary in Louisiana, thereby deprived of a re-election campaign to retain his Senate.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Cassidy, the latest target of President Trump\u2019s ire when he failed to support the President\u2019s realignment of the state\u2019s election map, was defeated by Rep. Julia Letlow (La.) who was endorsed by Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Senate Majority Leader John Thune (S.D) called Cassidy a \u2018<i>very principled conservative and a very independent thinker\u201d<\/i> who was Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In 2021, Cassidy voted to convict Trump on a impeachment charge citing the January 6<span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span> insurrection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Trump\u2019s Truth Social post noted on Cassidy\u2019s defeat that \u201c<i>his disloyalty to the man that got him elected is now part of legend and it is nice to see that his political career is OVER<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In addition, GOP Senators who did not vote on Kaine\u2019s resolution were Sen. Tillis (NC), Sen. Cornyn (Texas) and Sen. Tuberville (AL.). <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Cornyn had just lost Trump\u2019s endorsement to State Attorney General Paxton in his Senate re-election primary in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The House of Representatives has yet to approve the War Powers Act which would require a direct confrontation with the President over the Iran war. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><i>Renee Parsons\u00a0<\/i><\/b><i>has been an elected public official in Colorado, an environmental lobbyist with Friends of the Earth and a staff member in the US House of Representative in Washington, DC. Before its demise, she was also a member of the ACLU\u2019s Florida State Board of Directors and President of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64550,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64549\/revisions\/64550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}