{"id":127717,"date":"2026-03-02T21:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127717\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T21:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:27:05","slug":"iran-war-powers-philly-area-lawmakers-split-as-vote-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127717\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war powers: Philly-area lawmakers split as vote looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spokesperson for Sen. Dave McCormick did not immediately respond to multiple email requests for comment. Like Fetterman, he has praised the operation. On Sunday, McCormick <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenMcCormickPA\" rel=\"nofollow\">went on Fox News<\/a> to say Trump \u201cacted completely within his constitutional authority\u201d when he struck Iran.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Philadelphia, U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Montgomery County, U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans, D-Philadelphia, and U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Delaware County, are all in favor of the bipartisan war powers resolution coming to the House floor this week, according to their respective offices.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Bucks County, said the congressman was \u201cstill reviewing the text of the resolution and any possible amendments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will also be receiving a classified briefing regarding the Administration\u2019s plans and intentions in Iran,\u201d the spokesperson said via email. \u201cBoth of these must happen before any decisions are made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Chester County, declined to share how the congresswoman would be voting and instead re-shared a statement from Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake no mistake, Iran is a very bad actor on the world stage, and has been for a long time, but the American people have not been given any evidence of an appreciable change, and Congress did not authorize any action,\u201d Houlahan said. \u201cThe Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has expressed concern about the readiness implications of this action as well. President Trump, who promised no wars, is now again putting the lives of our men and women in uniform in grave danger all while trampling all over the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson for Sen. Dave McCormick did not immediately respond to multiple email requests for comment. Like Fetterman,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7097,59042,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-127717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-congress","9":"tag-iran-war","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}