A bipartisan Senate coalition voted to repeal a pair of decades-old laws that green lit U.S. military action in the Middle East.
Senators, in an voice vote, adopted an amendment from Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) to the annual National Defense Authorization Act that would scrub the old war power laws passed in the run-up to the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The vote is a win for war powers advocates, and it moves Congress as close as it’s ever been to rescinding the laws.
Even opponents — who see value in keep the Iraq War measure on the books — didn’t press for a roll call vote on the measure. One of those opponents, Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) told fellow senators on the floor “I see how the wind is blowing” on the outcome of a vote.
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