BREAKING: The Senate on Wednesday voted to repeal the legal justifications used to attack Iraq in 1991 and 2003.
used to attack Iraq in 1991 and 2003, endorsing a rare bipartisan effort by Congress to revoke the authority to wage war from the executive branch just days after the 20-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War.to repeal the 2002 authorization for the use of military force, or AUMF, that Congress adopted ahead of the March 2003 invasion by U.S. and allied troops, as well as the 1991 authorization for the first Gulf War.
The legislation now heads to the House, where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle 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.
"It'll have to go through committee," McCarthy said."I think it has a good chance of one getting through the committee and getting to the floor." President Biden supports repealing the 1991 and 2002 authorizations and is open to replacing"outdated authorizations" with a"narrow and specific framework more appropriate to protecting Americans from modern terrorist threats.
"While I understand theoretically why we want to get rid of the 2002 AUMF because Saddam [Hussein] is gone, I don't understand why we're leaving this vacuum and this doubt," Graham said Monday on the Senate floor, referring to the late Iraqi dictator."This is easily fixed. You're creating a narrative that's going to come back to haunt us.
The Senate also rejected an amendment from Republican Sen. Marco Rubio that would have halted the 2002 repeal until the Biden administration certified that Iran has stopped supporting terrorist organizations and violent groups in Iraq and Syria.
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