The House Iran war-powers tally has crossed the paper's evidence line. CBS now reports that the House passed a measure forcing President Trump to end the war with Iran without congressional authorization, 215 to 208, with four Republicans joining Democrats and Jared Golden dropping his earlier opposition. [1]

The paper's June 2 treatment of the Senate Iran roll call was deliberately slow: official record first, vote math second. Its June 1 article on why deal text cannot stand in for Senate votes made the same distinction between diplomacy and authorization.

That caution was right when the number lived only in an X post. It is no longer the whole story. A clean MSM source now carries the House result and enough procedural detail to print the number. [1]

The official-source problem still matters. The Senate roll-call URL and Kaine page remained access-denied paths in this check, and no House clerk page was fetched to supply the full roll-call sheet. [2] [3] That leaves a smaller but real gap: the paper can say the House vote happened because CBS carries it, but the named-vote record still belongs to tomorrow's verification queue.

X was early. The record is still partial. The useful discipline is knowing when a claim has become printable, and when the underlying chamber paperwork still has not caught up.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington