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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. SCHUMER. Madam President, for years, Trump promised to put maximum pressure on Iran, but he ended up delivering maximum confusion, maximum chaos, and maximum cost to the American people with his disastrous war.
on a War Powers Resolution to end the war. Time after time, the vast majority of Senate Republicans sided with Trump and his war, instead of the American people.
in Iran. It will go down in the history books as one of the worst foreign policy forays America has ever made or any country has ever made. It is so, so ridiculous, costly; achieving no goals that Trump set forward—virtually none.
and, tragically, the loss of 13 servicemembers and the wounding of hundreds more.
And, meanwhile, Iran took Trump to the cleaners. Trump gave Iran everything—their terrorist proxies, their control over the strait, their own revenue, their hundreds of billions of dollars in reconstruction aid. And it is still unclear what we have gotten in return.
and answer questions. No one knows what side deals there are. No one knows what actually was said. No one knows the details of this so- called understanding, and the reason is they are probably afraid to show it because they know how badly they have done.
Trump won't brief Congress. Trump won't defend his deal. Trump won't end his war. But Democrats will keep forcing this vote—and we are going to keep doing it—because only Congress has the power to take this Nation to war, and this one must end. In fact, Trump never, ever should have started it.
I yield back all time, and I ask for the yeas and nays.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, all time is yielded back.
Vote on H. Con. Res. 86
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the concurrent resolution.
Is there a sufficient second?
There appears to be a sufficient second.
The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. McCormick).
The result was announced—yeas 50, nays 48, as follows:
Rollcall Vote No. 184 Leg.
YEAS—50
Alsobrooks
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Cassidy
Collins
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
Kim
King
Klobuchar
Lujan
Markey
Merkley
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Ossoff
Padilla
Paul
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Sanders
Schatz
Schiff
Schumer
Shaheen
Slotkin
Smith
Van Hollen
Warner
Warnock
Warren
Welch
Whitehouse
Wyden
NAYS—48
Armstrong
Banks
Barrasso
Blackburn
Boozman
Britt
Budd
Capito
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Curtis
Daines
Ernst
Fetterman
Fischer
Graham
Grassley
Hagerty
Hawley
Hoeven
Husted
Hyde-Smith
Johnson
Justice
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Lummis
Marshall
Moody
Moran
Moreno
Ricketts
Risch
Rounds
Schmitt
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Sheehy
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Tuberville
Wicker
Young
NOT VOTING—2
McConnell
McCormick
The concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 86) was agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Banks). The Senator from West Virginia.