A first-term congressman with no seat on Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, or Intelligence went on cable and threatened to flatten a country of 90 million — in a war that has already wounded hundreds of Americans and that Congress has voted twice to end.
Trump attacked Iran on February 28. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is where Congress asks a president why. Its chairman decided the public didn't need to hear the answers.
Iowa gas hit $3.78 a gallon and diesel topped $5. Exxon and Chevron doubled their profits. Hinson took $64,500 from oil and gas companies — and kept voting against every attempt to end the war driving the prices up.
On April 9, 2026, House Democrats asked for a vote to limit Trump's war in Iran. The New Jersey Republican presiding over the chamber refused to recognize them and banged the gavel.
During the 2024 New Jersey drone panic, Van Drew went on national TV and blamed Iran, citing 'high sources.' The Pentagon said there was no truth to it. He never apologized — he changed the subject.
On July 30 the Senate came one vote short of forcing a debate on Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 13 Republican senators we track voted no — a week after the House told the president to get out.
Ohio Sen. Jon Husted has voted against every one of the 13 Senate resolutions this year to pull U.S. forces out of Iran — while oil companies making record profits off that war put $220,000 behind his reelection.
Rick Crawford chairs the committee that is supposed to check the intelligence behind a war. On Saturday he used that chair to ask the president for more of it — and Trump thanked him publicly within minutes.
On a telephone town hall, an elderly constituent asked how Congress can fund a war while Social Security's trust fund runs dry. Mackenzie gave a non-answer. Less than a day later he voted against pulling U.S. forces out of Iran — his fifth such vote.
