US House votes to rein in Trump's war powers in rebuke over Iran

WASHINGTON. April — "A joint resolution for congressional Joint committee on the conduct of the war" was introduced simultaneously today by Senator Weeks of Massachusetts and Representative Madden of Illinois, both Republicans. The committee would be composed of six members of the Senate, including four Democrats and two Republicans, and six from the House, evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. The resolution provides that the committee shall be known as the "Joint committee on the conduct of the war" and shall sit during the sessions or the recesses of Congress, shall make special study of the problems arising out of the war, shall confer and advise with the President of the United States and the heads of the various executive departments, and shall report to Congress from time to time in its own discretion or when requested to do so by either branch of Congress. The committee would be clothed with the widest powers of investigation, compelling testimony under oath.