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Effort to repeal resolutions authorizing military force splits Senate Republicans

By Cami Mondeaux
Published March 10, 2023 3:13am ET
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Effort to repeal resolutions authorizing military force splits Senate Republicans
From left, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy stand on the East steps of Capitol Hill in this Dec. 2021 photo. | Susan Walsh/AP


Only 11 of the current 100 senators were in Congress when the House and Senate in January 1991 voted to authorize military force for President George H.W. Bush and evict Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein‘s troops from occupied Kuwait.

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