WASHINGTON (AP) — The senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee is pushing legislation authorizing the president to use military force against Islamic state militants in Iraq, Syria and wherever else they threaten U.S. interests.

Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma is circulating a draft of a resolution granting the president the authority to “use all necessary and appropriate force in order to defend the national security of the United States against the threat posed by the organization called the Islamic State or ‘IS,’ formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, as well as any successor organization.”