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By the end of 1967, Javits joined those ideologically opposed to the Vietnam War and called for a peaceful solution to the conflict.​ He backed the  Cooper-Church Amendment, named foer the Moderate Republican Senator [[John Sherman Cooper]] of [[Kentucky]]. The measure barred funds for American forces in [[Cambodia]], and he also voted to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that he had earlier supported. He sponsored the [[War Powers Resolution]] of 1973, which sought to reinforce congressional jurisdiction over foreign policy. The resolution, which President [[Richard M. Nixon]] vetoed proposed to limit to sixty days the ability of a president to send American armed forces into combat without congressional approval.<ref>War Powers - Law Library of Congress.</ref>​

By the end of 1967, Javits joined those ideologically opposed to the Vietnam War and called for a peaceful solution to the conflict.​ He backed the  Cooper-Church Amendment, named foer the Moderate Republican Senator [[John Sherman Cooper]] of [[Kentucky]]. The measure barred funds for American forces in [[Cambodia]], and he also voted to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that he had earlier supported. He sponsored the [[War Powers Resolution]] of 1973, which sought to reinforce congressional jurisdiction over foreign policy. The resolution, which President [[Richard M. Nixon]] vetoed proposed to limit to sixty days the ability of a president to send American armed forces into combat without congressional approval.<ref>War Powers - Law Library of Congress.</ref>​

Javits lost the 1980 Republican Senate primary, 56 to 44 percent, to [[Al D'Amato|Alfonse Marcello D'Amato]], a local official from [[Long Island]], who campaigned to Javits' right.<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=85658 NY US Senate - R Primary Race - Sep 09, 1980]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved June 5, 2021.</ref> Javits still ran as the nominee of the New York Liberal Party but polled only 11 percent of the vote in the [[general election]] in which D'Amato narrowly defeated the Democratic nominee, U.S. Representative Elizabeth Holtzman.<ref name=nytobit/><ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=3894 NY US Senate Race - Nov 04, 1980]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved June 5, 2021.</ref>

Javits won reelection in the heavily Democratic year of 1974, having defeated former [[United States Attorney General]] [[Ramsey Clark]]. Six years later, Javits lost the 

lost the 1980 Republican Senate primary, 56 to 44 percent, to [[Al D'Amato|Alfonse Marcello D'Amato]], a local official from [[Long Island]], who campaigned to Javits' right.<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=85658 NY US Senate - R Primary Race - Sep 09, 1980]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved June 5, 2021.</ref> Javits still ran as the nominee of the New York Liberal Party but polled only 11 percent of the vote in the [[general election]] in which D'Amato narrowly defeated the Democratic nominee, U.S. Representative Elizabeth Holtzman.<ref name=nytobit/><ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=3894 NY US Senate Race - Nov 04, 1980]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved June 5, 2021.</ref>

==Death and legacy==

==Death and legacy==