War Powers Resolution. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973) (50 U.S.C. 1541â1548) is a federal law intended to check the president 's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.t has been alleged that the War Powers Resolution has been violated in the past â for example, by President Bill Clinton in 1999, during the bombing campaign in Kosovo.
August 7: Partial lunar eclipse. August 21: Total solar eclipse. Get ready for a total solar eclipse visible from continental U.S. in 2017. Itâll happen on Monday, August 21, 2017 â with the path of totality cross from coast to coast â the first total solar eclipse visible on U.S. soil in a generation.
Solar and Lunar Eclipses in 2016. This year there's a total solar eclipse on March 9th (visible from Indonesia) and an annular on September 1st (central Africa). But the terrific tetrad of total lunar eclipses is over â we'll see just two barely-there penumbral eclipses in 2016, on March 23rd and September 16th.