Still: Fuck you, Harry Reid. He should have killed the appointments filibuster as soon as Scott Brown won in Massachusetts and he and Obama should have started filling all those vacancies. Either that or don't do it at all and make the Republicans own it completely.
Meanwhile...
Remember when Congress tried to assert its authority under the War Powers Act to get the US out of its involvement in the Saudi Arabia-led genocide in Yemen?
http://forums.fstdt.digibase.ca/index.php?topic=7463.msg322935#msg322935Well in the last Congress, a resolution to that effect sponsored by Sen. Sanders passed the Senate, with the support of every member of the Democratic caucus along with Sens. Paul, Lee, Moran and Young, at the least, joining on every amendment. Sanders has introduced the same resolution in this Congress (S.J. Res. 7), and if it comes to a vote, given that the four Republicans who joined uniformly are all still in Congress, assuming the entire Democratic caucus holds, it can pass again.
Of course, when the same matter came up in the House, championed by Rep. Khanna (D-CA), that body voted to block consideration of it despite support from 18 Republicans, thanks to support for the block from five Democrats.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll083.xmlRep. Khanna introduced the same resolution in this Congress... and it passed.
This time, every Democratic Representative voted for the resolution, including the five who had opposed it previously. Additionally, eighteen Republicans again joined to support it: Reps. Biggs (co-sponsor), Brooks (AL), Buck (co-sponsor), Cloud, Davidson (OH), Gaetz, Gohmert, Griffith, Hollingsworth, Jordan, Massie, Meadows, Mooney (WV), Posey, Roy, Schweikert, Tipton, and Webster (FL). Rep. Amash, who had supported the resolution in the previous Congress, voted "Present". Reps. Allred, Dingell, Quigley and Ryan (all D) along with Rep. Kinzinger (R) did not vote.
(Rep. Jones (R-NC) was also a co-sponsor but passed away on Feb. 10.)
Speculation now abounds that this will lead to Pres. Trump's first veto.
EDIT:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-border-wall-funding-national-emergency-1.5020813Well, there's the emergency declaration.