[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 105 (Tuesday, June 23, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3039-S3040]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            H. CON. RES. 86

  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, for years, Trump promised to put 
maximum pressure on Iran, but he ended up delivering maximum confusion, 
maximum chaos, and maximum cost to the American people with his 
disastrous war.
  Every second this war continues, the costs to the American people go 
up.
  And this is the 10th time Democrats have forced Republicans to vote 
on a War Powers Resolution to end the war. Time after time, the vast 
majority of Senate Republicans sided with Trump and his war, instead of 
the American people.
  The American people have paid the price for Trump's historic blunder 
in Iran. It will go down in the history books as one of the worst 
foreign policy forays America has ever made or any country has ever 
made. It is so, so ridiculous, costly; achieving no goals that Trump 
set forward--virtually none.
  The American people have seen skyrocketing gas prices, soaring costs, 
and, tragically, the loss of 13 servicemembers and the wounding of 
hundreds more.

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  And, meanwhile, Iran took Trump to the cleaners. Trump gave Iran 
everything--their terrorist proxies, their control over the strait, 
their own revenue, their hundreds of billions of dollars in 
reconstruction aid. And it is still unclear what we have gotten in 
return.
  Trump, Vance, and Rubio refused to come before the American public 
and answer questions. No one knows what side deals there are. No one 
knows what actually was said. No one knows the details of this so-
called understanding, and the reason is they are probably afraid to 
show it because they know how badly they have done.
  Trump won't brief Congress. Trump won't defend his deal. Trump won't 
end his war. But Democrats will keep forcing this vote--and we are 
going to keep doing it--because only Congress has the power to take 
this Nation to war, and this one must end. In fact, Trump never, ever 
should have started it.
  I yield back all time, and I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, all time is yielded back.


                        Vote on H. Con. Res. 86

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the concurrent 
resolution.
  Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell) and the Senator from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. McCormick).
  The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 48, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 184 Leg.]

                                YEAS--50

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gallego
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kim
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Slotkin
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--48

     Armstrong
     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sheehy
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--2

     McConnell
     McCormick
       
  The concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 86) was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Banks). The Senator from West Virginia.

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