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.
This Friday, March 20, marks this year's first and only total eclipse of the sun, when the moon passes directly between Earth and the sun. Not only that, this is an extremely rare type of solar eclipse because it takes place on the first day of spring and when the moon is at its closest distance to Earth, known as a supermoon.