Senate will consider measure to revoke 2002 war powers in Iraq

Published August 4, 2021 4:23pm ET



A Senate committee advanced a measure to revoke the 2002 authorization for the use of military force in Iraq, setting up a floor vote later this year.

The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee voted mostly along party lines, 14-8, to advance a measure that would end the president’s war powers authority in Iraq that Congress granted nearly two decades ago.

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