{"id":130785,"date":"2026-03-05T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/130785\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:22:07","slug":"philadelphia-area-house-members-vote-on-iran-war-along-party-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/130785\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia-area House members vote on Iran war along party lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>A second push to restrict President Donald Trump\u2019s war in Iran flopped Thursday in the U.S. House.\n<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Bucks County, joined other House Republicans in rejecting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-concurrent-resolution\/38\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">war powers resolution<\/a> \u2014 paving the way for the conflict in the Middle East to continue.\n<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/fitzpatrick.house.gov\/2026\/3\/fitzpatrick-statement-on-h-con-res-38\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> released shortly after the vote, Fitzpatrick categorized the resolution as \u201cirresponsibly drafted and dangerously overbroad.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe resolution is written so broadly that it would require the immediate termination of \u2018all hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran or any part of its government,\u2019 language that could encompass not only direct military engagement, but also long-standing counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and cyber operations targeting the Iranian regime and its terrorist proxies,\u201d Fitzpatrick wrote.\n<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in the Greater Philadelphia region <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/pennsylvania-new-jersey-delaware-officials-reaction-iran-bombings-us-military\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have mostly been outspoken against the military operation<\/a>. U.S. Reps. Madeleine Dean, D-Montgomery County, Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Delaware County, Chrissy Houlahan, D-Chester County, Dwight Evans, D-Philadelphia, and Brendan Boyle, D-Philadelphia, voted in favor of limiting Trump\u2019s war in Iran.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1084,59042,69,71,70,368],"class_list":{"0":"post-130785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-house","9":"tag-iran-war","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news","13":"tag-president-donald-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130785","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=130785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}