The Senate is expected to vote today on legislation that repeals the legal justifications used to attack Iraq in 1991 and 2003.
used to attack Iraq in 1991 and 2003, a rare bipartisan effort by Congress to revoke the authority to wage war from the executive branch more than 20 years after the start of the Iraq War.revokes the 2002 authorization for the use of military force, or AUMF, that Congress adopted ahead of the 2003 invasion, as well as the 1991 authorization for the first Gulf War. The measure is expected to pass easily, having cleared procedural hurdles by a comfortable margin.
The legislation will still need to pass the House, where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have said they are open to taking action. In 2021, when Democrats controlled the House, the lower chamber voted to repeal the 2002 authorization, but it never received a vote in the Senate. Forty-nine Republicans joined nearly all Democrats in voting for repeal at the time.
The Senate rejected a number of amendments on the repeal resolution, including Republican Sen. Rand Paul's amendment to repeal the separate 2001 AUMF targeting those responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, which still forms the legal basis for many U.S. counterterrorism efforts. An amendment from Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham to authorize force against Iranian-backed militias operating in Iraq also failed.
Supporters of a repeal said Mr. Biden didn't need congressional authority to retaliate against Iranian-backed groups. During a Senate hearing on the Defense Department's budget on Tuesday, Republican Sen. Tom Cotton questioned whether the administration delayed informing Congress about last week's Syria attack because of the Rubio amendment.
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