Voices of the House of Representatives to cancel the licenses of the Iraq war

Washington – Republicans in the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to cancel the legal justifications used to attack Iraq in 1991 and 2003, which is the most recent attempt by Congress to cancel the president’s authority in the war of launch.

This step follows President Trump’s decisions To bomb Iranian nuclear facilities and Pour It is alleged to carry illegal drugs in the Caribbean.

Located lawmakers have long asked the corridor who left licenses in their place, on the pretext that they allow the presidents to misuse their authority.

The House of Representatives adopted this measure in 261 to 167 votes. It was supported by 212 democratic and 49 Republicans. Both parties amendment Senawi associated with National Defense Licensing LawThat passed later Wednesday. Under the auspices of the amendment by Democratic Representative Gregory Mix from New York and Republican Representative Chip Roy from Texas.

During the discussion of the floor, Mix said that the licenses are “long, old” and “abuse of risk by the departments of either side.”

“It is time for Congress to restore his constitutional authority over the issues of war and peace,” Mix said.

Republican Brian Mast from Florida, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives, said that he objected to the amendment for procedural reasons.

“We have, I think, a big agreement on the causes of sunset,” Mast said. “But this should not be done in the absence of doing something of this gravity in the right way.”

A similar scale Pass The Democrats -controlled Senate in 2023, with the support of 48 democratic and 18 Republicans. But she did not receive a vote in the Republican House of Representatives.

In the House of Representatives, 219 Democrats and 49 Republicans voted to cancel a 2002 license in 2021. But he stopped in the Senate. Both enveloped were a democratic majority at the time.

Congress adopted an authorization in 2002 before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, which led to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime. The permission of 1991 was approved during the Gulf War.

“We should not work under a 23 -year -old license to use military force,” Roy said. “We do not need to have Congress in the modern era effectively declare war and leave it in place for a strange quarter of a century, or in this case, 34 years ago since 1991.”

In 2020, Mr. Trump used a 2002 license as part of legal justification To hit an airspace Iranian military leader Qassem Solimani in Baghdad.