The Senate is advancing a vote to repeal two decades-old Iraq War authorizations as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle push to reclaim congressional war powers 20 years after the last invasion by U.S. troops.
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Tuesday advanced bipartisan legislation to scrap the 1991 and 2002 authorizations for the use of military force that paved the way for the Gulf War under President George H.W. Bush and the 2003 invasion of Iraq under his son. A floor vote is expected in the coming days.
The Democrat-led House repealed the 2002 AUMF in a 268-161 vote in June 2021, but that push failed to clear the Senate. President Biden has registered his support for appealing the authorizations, arguing they are outdated. Cully Stimson, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said past presidents have leaned on the authorization as a “political gesture to those who don’t like presidents operating solely on their constitutional prerogative under Article 2.”
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