VotedBy VotedBy ⌕
Election Day · Tue, Nov 3See how your members of Congress voted →

H.R. 5543 · 116th Congress

No War Against Iran Act

Key: what the circles and colors mean

Each circle is a bill. The ring fills as it moves through Congress:

IntroducedPassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law (gold)Resolution agreed to (full, dark)Failed or vetoed (gray)

Under the number: the Yea · Nay count of its final (or latest) recorded vote. On a member's page, the small badge is how that member voted: Y Yea / Aye, N Nay / No, P Present, – Not voting.

Gold and violet are only for Yea and Nay; they never mean a party. A member's party is the letter on their photo.

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 116th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

RKD KhannaSponsor
106 cosponsors · 106 D
EBD Blumenauer SBD Bonamici DBD Beyer ABD Brown DCD Cicilline JCD Crow GCD Cisneros PDD DeFazio LDD Doggett EED Engel DED Evans AED Espaillat RGD Grijalva JGD Garamendi RGD Gallego CGD García JHD Himes JHD Huffman DHD Haaland HJD Johnson PJD Jayapal JKD Kennedy BLD Lee ALD Lowenthal TLD Lieu ALD Levin JMD McGovern GMD Moore SMD Moulton END Norton AOD Ocasio-Cortez IOD Omar FPD Pallone DPD Price MPD Pocan DPD Phillips APD Pressley JSD Serrano ASD Smith ASD Schiff MSD Scanlon ASD Spanberger PTD Tonko RTD Tlaib NVD Velázquez PWD Welch BWD Watson Coleman CAD Allred JCD Cooper SCD Cohen JCD Chu TDD Deutch AGD Green MLD Levin BPD Pascrell KPD Porter BRD Rush JRD Raskin LSD Sánchez NBD Barragán DDD Davis VED Escobar SJD Jackson Lee DKD Kilmer BLD Lawrence JND Nadler JND Neguse DSD Soto JYD Yarmuth YCD Clarke RDD DeLauro MWD Waters KCD Clark DDD DeGette MDD DeSaulnier RLD Larsen CMD Maloney BMD McCollum MTD Takano ZLD Lofgren GND Napolitano EPD Perlmutter CPD Pingree JSD Schakowsky JBD Brownley JMD McNerney CRD Ruppersberger MRD Rose FVD Vela BBD Boyle MDD Dean HJD Jeffries DTD Trone TGD Gabbard DHD Heck JHD Harder JSD Speier MTD Thompson DKD Kildee DMD Matsui HRD Rouda ASD Sires ESD Slotkin BSD Sherman JBD Beatty JCD Castro

47 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

This bill prohibits the obligation or expenditure of federal funds for any use of military force in or against Iran unless Congress has either declared war or enacted specific statutory authorization for such use.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Jan 7, 2020

No War Against Iran Act

This bill prohibits the obligation or expenditure of federal funds for any use of military force in or against Iran unless Congress has either declared war or enacted specific statutory authorization for such use.

An exception is made for a presidential exercise of power to introduce Armed Forces into hostilities (or situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated) when there is a national emergency created by an attack upon the United States.

The bill further states that no prior authorizations of military force (e.g., against Iraq) may be construed to authorize the use of military force against Iran.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: No War Against Iran Act

Latest action (Jan 7, 2020): Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Policy area: International Affairs · Origin: House · Introduced: Jan 7, 2020

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.