So if North Korea 'pushes the button' and their nuclear-tipped submarine -launched ICBM, aimed at Seattle, (their missiles are notoriously inaccurate) will arrive in 12 minutes, and the Congress is on Easter Recess, we let it land and kill  hundreds of thousands, with downwind hazard to thousands more, and call Congress into session before the President is permitted to wipe North Korea off the face of the earth?

Do we have to wait until the fallout reaches Portland or until it reaches Eugene before we have the vote?