众议院议长南希·佩洛西周日称，众议院将于本周就“限制总统对伊朗的军事行动”的战争权力决议进行投票。
限制唐纳德·特朗普总统非亲属行为能力的举措旨在迫使参议院共和党人解决与中东国家日益加剧的紧张局势。
“上周，特朗普政府针对伊朗高级军事官员进行了一次挑衅性和不相称的军事空袭，”佩洛西在周日晚上给同事们的一封信中写道。“这一行动冒着与伊朗紧张局势严重升级的风险，危及我们的服务人员、外交官和其他人...我们感到关切的是，政府采取这一行动时没有征求国会的意见，也没有尊重宪法赋予它的战争权力。”
这项享有特权的立法迫使共和党领导的参议院就此事进行投票，引发了一场政治斗争，即总统在进行外国军事行动时是否有能力绕过立法部门。在美国周末对伊拉克的空袭导致伊朗最高军事将领卡西姆·索莱马尼死亡后，与伊朗的紧张局势加剧。
众议院于周二圣诞节休会后返回。多数党领袖史丹尼·霍耶的办公室还不确定投票将在哪一天举行。
佩洛西写道:“它重申了国会由来已久的监督责任，规定如果国会不采取进一步行动，政府对伊朗的军事敌对行动将在30天内停止。”。
佩洛西说，这项决议将由众议员埃利萨·斯洛金提出，他是密歇根州一名弱势民主党新生。她也是中央情报局前中东分析员和前国际安全事务代理助理国防部长。这项立法旨在“迫使国会进行辩论和投票，以防止与伊朗的敌对行动进一步升级”，将反映蒂姆·凯恩的观点战争权力决议。
众议院议长南希·佩洛西(D-CA)将于2019年12月19日抵达华盛顿特区的美国国会大厦参加每周新闻发布会。佩洛西尚未设定她将指派给唐纳德·特朗普总统弹劾案审判的管理人员人数，也未表示她将于何时将文章提交给美国参议院。
战争权力决议将寻求限制总统未经国会授权在国外采取军事行动的能力。没有国会的批准，政府将不得不在30天内结束在该地区的军事行动。
特朗普没有向所谓的“八国集团”——每个议院的最高立法委员以及众议院和参议院情报委员会的领导人——通报无人机袭击杀死索莱曼尼的事件，这是总统通常给予华盛顿领导人的礼遇。
包括佩洛西和参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默在内的八国集团最高民主党议员没有得到通知，这激怒了国会中的民主党人。尚不清楚哪一位共和党人被告知这一决定，但众议院少数党领袖凯文·麦卡锡(共和党人领袖)在苏莱曼尼被杀期间出现在与总统在马拉加的一张照片中，参议员林赛·格雷厄姆(共和党人领袖)公开表示他是事先被告知的。
特朗普周日采取了非同寻常的举措，在推特上宣称，他的在线帖子“将作为对美国国会的通知，如果伊朗袭击任何美国人或目标，美国将迅速和全面反击，也许是以不相称的方式。”
"这种法律通知不是必须的，但还是要发出的！"他补充道。
舒默和参议院外交事务委员会的最高民主党参议员鲍勃·梅嫩德斯在周一的一封信中要求特朗普解密他在无人机袭击周末发给国会的通知，这是战争权力决议的要求。
高级顾问凯莱恩·康威将梅嫩德斯的要求归类为“捶胸顿足”她表示，民主党议员，如众议院情报主席亚当·希夫(民主党领袖)，是“八国集团”的成员，领导众议院弹劾调查，是不可信的。
康威告诉记者:“这个人戴着耳机和麦克风睡觉。”。
NANCY PELOSI TO FORCE REPUBLICANS' HANDS WITH WAR POWERS VOTE TO LIMIT ACTIONS ON IRAN
The House of Representatives will vote on a War Powers resolution this week "to limit the President's military actions regarding Iran," Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday.
The move to curtail President Donald Trump's ability to act unliterally is designed to force Republicans in the Senate to address the heightened tension with the Middle Eastern nation.
"Last week, the Trump Administration conducted a provocative and disproportionate military airstrike targeting high-level Iranian military officials," Pelosi wrote in a letter announcing the legislation to her colleagues Sunday night. "This action endangered our service members, diplomats and others by risking a serious escalation of tensions with Iran... we are concerned that the Administration took this action without the consultation of Congress and without respect for Congress's war powers granted to it by the Constitution."
The legislation, which is privileged, forces the GOP-led Senate to vote on the matter, teeing up a political battle over whether to reign in a president's ability to circumvent the Legislative Branch when conducting foreign military action. It comes amid intensified tensions with Iran after the weekend's U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed one of Iran's top military generals, Qassem Soleimani.
The House returns from Christmas recess Tuesday. The office of Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) was not yet sure which day the vote will take place.
"It reasserts Congress's long-established oversight responsibilities by mandating that if no further Congressional action is taken, the Administration's military hostilities with regard to Iran cease within 30 days," Pelosi wrote.
The resolution will be introduced by Rep. Elissa Slotkin, Pelosi said, who is a freshman vulnerable Democrat from Michigan. She's also a former Middle East analyst for the CIA and former acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. The legislation, which aims to "force a debate and vote in Congress to prevent further escalation of hostilities with Iran," will mirror Sen. Tim Kaine's (D-VA) war powers resolution.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) arrives for her weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol December 19, 2019 in Washington, D.C. Pelosi has not set the number of managers she will assign to President Donald Trump's impeachment trial and has not said when she will send the articles over to the U.S. Senate.
The war powers resolution will seek to curtail the president's ability to take military action abroad without congressional authorization. Without approval from Congress, the administration would have to end its military action in the region within 30 days.
Trump did not notify the so-called Gang of Eight—the top lawmakers in each chamber and the leaders of the House and Senate's Intelligence Committees—about the drone strike that killed Soleimani, a courtesy that is typically extended to Washington's leaders by a president.
Top Democratic lawmakers in the Gang of Eight, including Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), were not given notification, which angered Democrats in Congress. It was not clear which Republicans were told about the decision, but House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) appeared in a picture with the president at Mar-a-Lago amid Soleimani's killing, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said publicly he was informed in advance.
Trump took the extraordinary move Sunday to claim on Twitter that his online posts "will serve as notification to the United States Congress that should Iran strike any U.S. person or target, the United States will quickly & fully strike back, & perhaps in a disproportionate manner."
"Such legal notice is not required, but is given nevertheless!" he added.
Schumer and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, demanded in a letter Monday that Trump declassify the notification that he sent to Congress over the weekend of the drone strike, which is required under the War Powers Resolution.
Senior adviser Kellyanne Conway classified Menendez's demand as "chest-thumping." She suggested that Democratic lawmakers, such as House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), a member of the Gang of Eight and who spearheaded the House's impeachment inquiry, cannot be trusted.
"The man goes to bed with his earpiece and microphone on," Conway told reporters.
