The Senate has advanced a bill that would repeal decades-old authorizations for use of military force for the Iraq and Persian Gulf wars, in an overwhelming show of bipartisan support for legislation the White House has signaled it will support.
on Thursday to end debate on the bill, clearing the way for amendments and a final vote next week.
“Repealing this AUMF [authorization of military force] is a necessary step towards putting the final remnants of the Iraq War squarely behind us,” Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said on the Senate floor Thursday. “Every year we leave this AUMF on the books is another year a future administration can abuse it. Congress, the rightful dispenser of war powers, cannot allow this to continue.
A bipartisan group of senators, led by Tim Kaine and Todd C. Young , spearheaded the effort to repeal the authorizations of military force before the 20th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War this month. “The enemy against whom we declared war [in 2002] is no more,” Kaine told reporters Thursday. “There’s no reason, none, to have a war authorization against a strategic partner.”Young said the effort to repeal the authorizations “transcends party politics...
To give a sense of how outdated these authorizations are, Kaine and Young pointed out that only three of the 100 members of the current Senate were in office when the first Gulf War was authorized in 1991. Only a handful of members of the current Congress were in office when Operation Iraqi Freedom was authorized in 2002.Sen.
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