In a long-anticipated vote, the Senate finally had their motion to proceed on the Yemen War resolution, with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introducing the motion at 3:00 on Wednesday. The vote passed 60-39.
This opens the Senate up to debate and ultimately vote on the resolution calling for an end to US involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. This marks the second vote that the Senate has had this month to advance the resolution.
While the vote went largely as expected, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) was a surprise defector, voting no on the motion. Corker had opposed previous moves to end the Yemen War, but had backed the idea in recent weeks, citing the Saudi murder of Jamal Khashoggi as his turning point.
Proceeding to the resolution is no guarantee that it will pass the Senate. There are any number of additional obstacles that could be thrown up, and those voting to proceed may not, in fact, vote for the resolution itself.
Even if it passes in the Senate, there likely won’t be any concurrent resolutions in the House until next year, as the House leadership has once again made a last second rule change in an unrelated bill to block any challenges to the Yemen War.
Those wishing to call their senators should do so very soon before the matter comes up for vote. You can do this by calling the Capitol switchboard at (202)224-3121 or by finding individual contact information here.
The good Christian Paul Ryan sentences more Yemen children to death. Sleep tight you piece of excrement.
Being an (I), what made Bumbling Bernie ever think he could wrest the Democrat nomination from the Crook?
When I read our constitution I am appalled that congress does not pass a resolution within a microsecond on our participating in a war which was not declared on us. All those who vote no lied when they were sworn in to be seated in the Senate.
At the very least Congress must vote to make our participation to be constitutionally legal. Demanding to stop is much better.
Except when we are attacked, war is much too serious a matter to be left to one person, the President.
FDR asked or and got Congressional approval to wage war on Japan and Germany even though Japan had attacked first and Hitler had already declared war on us. What is the Yemen war compared to the attack on Pearl Harbor? Stop your sick performance in the Senate and House!
The Yemen US involvement is occurring under the war on terror authorization. Both this authorization, and the Iraq war authorization were unconstitutional because while congress set up parameters for authorization, they left “determination” of those parameters to the president, with no oversight. The lawsuit challenging this authorization was brought by Kucinich and a few other congressmen to federal court. Naturally, it failed. As it stands, the war on terror authorization says this, if the president determines someone harbored or abetted al Qaeda in London, he can nuke the city.
Shame on Graham also. This actually moving towards debate and a real vote is finally a huge step in the right direction though.
All of the no votes came from the peace party, and the peace president threatens to veto.
For those scoring at home….no war ..dems 48. Gop 10 (yea) ind 2……………more war gop 39