The Andrews Amendment on Iran

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Andrews (D-NJ) introduces the amendment: above
Pete Defazio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRTrTahDD98

This amendment was sadly defeated with the help of 29 "Democrats"

But there is a similar amendment from Defazio which reads as follows:

http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.html
An amendment numbered 14 printed in House Report 110-151 to clarify that no previously enacted law authorizes military action against Iran. It also prohibits funding authorized by the bill or in any other act from being used to take military action against Iran without specific authorization from Congress unless there is a `national emergency created by an attack by Iran upon the United States, its territories or possessions or its armed forces' (language taken directly from the War Powers Resolution, P.L. 93-148).