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National Day of Action to End the War in Yemen on Monday, November 26

November 25, 2018DocumentsFamine, war powers, yemen

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Leader Pelosi, Top Intel Dem Schiff co-sponsor Yemen War Powers Resolution Ahead of House and Senate Votes

November 25, 2018DocumentsAdam Schiff, Famine, Nancy Pelosi, war powers, yemen

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and ranking Intelligence Committee Democrat Adam Schiff have agreed to co-sponsor the House Yemen War Powers Resolution ahead of the expected votes this week in the Senate and the House. The current official list of co-sponsors, showing the co-sponsorship of Leader Pelosi, is here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/138/cosponsors?pageSort=lastToFirst Adam Schiff’s letter to Just…

Congress: Stop UAE Siege of Hodeida, Save 250,000 Yemeni Lives

July 26, 2018Action AlertsSaudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, war powers, yemen

The government of the United Arab Emirates has threatened to siege the crucial Yemeni port of Hodeida in the coming weeks. The UN and aid groups have warned that this could kill 250,000 Yemenis. The UAE’s response was: “The price is right.” Even top House Democrats who have expressed support for Saudi-UAE war aims in…

Urge your Rep. to co-sponsor Khanna-Massie to stop the Saudi famine in Yemen

September 18, 2017Action Alertscall-in, Mark Pocan, Ro Khanna, Saudi Arabia, Thomas Massie, Walter Jones, war powers, yemen

Reps. Ro Khanna, Thomas Massie, Mark Pocan, and Walter Jones have introduced a privileged bipartisan bill invoking the War Powers Resolution to force a floor vote on ending U.S. participation in Saudi Arabia’s famine-producing war in Yemen. The current cosponsors are: Conyers, Lieu, Capuano, Ellison, McGovern, Lee, Raskin, Jayapal, Gabbard, Bass, Pallone, DeFazio, Nolan, Lofgren,…

One Million Malnourished Kids At Risk Of Cholera In Yemen

August 3, 2017Action Alertscholera, Malnourished, Saudi Arabia, UAE, war powers, yemen

More than a million malnourished children are living in areas of Yemen hit hardest by a cholera outbreak, NPR reports. Malnourished children have substantially reduced immune systems and are at least three times more likely to die if they contract cholera. Yemen’s cholera outbreak is already the world’s worst in a single year since records…

Unacceptable: Congress blocked vote on the Saudi famine-war in Yemen.

July 31, 2017Action Alertsal Qaeda, Saudi Arabia, UAE, war powers, yemen

Last week, efforts to get a floor vote in the House on U.S. participation in the Saudi-UAE famine-war in Yemen on the Defense Appropriation were blocked by the House Republican leadership. There’s only one path left to force a floor vote in the House on U.S. participation in the Saudi famine-war: press House Members to…

TODAY 6pm: Use Ted Lieu phone-in “town hall” to oppose Trump’s Yemen war!

February 6, 2017Action Alertsiran, Ted Lieu, town hall, war powers, yemen

President Trump has threatened to escalate U.S. participation in the Saudi war in Yemen by conducting drone strikes on Shia Houthi rebels. U.S. military action against Shia Houthi rebels has never been authorized by Congress. That means that under the War Powers Resolution, a single Member of Congress can introduce a privileged resolution to force…

Use War Powers to Remove U.S. Forces from Saudi Bombing of Yemen

October 12, 2016Action AlertsBombing, Chris Murphy, congress, Saudi Arabia, war powers, yemen

As Democratic Senator Chris Murphy has noted, U.S. participation in the Saudi bombing of Yemen has never been authorized by Congress. Urge your reps. to use their war powers to force a vote on removing U.S. forces from the Saudi bombing of Yemen by signing our petition at MoveOn. Saudi Arabia’s conduct is now coming…

This Week, Senate Democrats Can Limit the ISIS War

December 9, 2014CommentaryDick Durbin, isil, isis, Islamic state, rand paul, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tim kaine, war powers

At long last, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is expected to vote this week on an authorization for the use of force for the war against ISIS that started in early August. There is little doubt that a majority of the committee supports the use of force against ISIS. What will be revealed this week…

Iraq war powers: where do House members stand?

July 8, 2014Commentaryiraq, war powers

This post is so that I can refer to my spreadsheet in blogging. For now, the attached spreadsheet is not intended to be pretty, only to be accurate. My hope is especially to educate journalists to the fact that nearly half the House is on record opposing the invocation of the 2002 Iraq AUMF to…

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