{"id":19486,"date":"2026-03-01T22:21:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congressional-iran-votes-take-on-new-weight-after-trump-strikes-3\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T22:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:21:25","slug":"congressional-iran-votes-take-on-new-weight-after-trump-strikes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congressional-iran-votes-take-on-new-weight-after-trump-strikes-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Iran votes take on new weight after Trump strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the House and Senate are unlikely to restrain the president, bipartisan backers of the legislative branch&rsquo;s war powers want to put lawmakers on the record&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/02\/28\/iran-votes-congress-war-powers-00805732\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the House and Senate are unlikely to restrain the president, bipartisan backers of the legislative branch&rsquo;s war powers want to put lawmakers on the record&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}