however that vote failed it was defeated and so that stipulation was not in act now chris murphy was a democratic member of congress expressed concerns that the white house could use legal loopholes to attack iran without the approval of congress maybe trump will say but iran the c but that's a loophole that would have any president to claim any number of middle east crisis as an emergency and then congress will never be able to object to a non-sale again recently mike pompei o the us secretary of state as well as the acting chief of the u.s. central command met with members of congress they briefed members of congress on the situation regarding iran and while that meeting was closed afterwards there were mixed feelings from members of congress who described the meeting our biggest focus at this point is to prevent the running of miscalculation. very much but intentionally or unintentionally we create a situation in which a war will take place this is about deterrence not about war...