[Peace-discuss] Kucinich Calls the Question on Libya War Powers

[Stuart Levy]

This is specific to the House, right?  Is there anything
related that we could speak to our senators about too?
(Does the defense appropriations bill have a Senate number yet?)

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 08:13:42PM -0500, Robert Naiman wrote:
> Last week, voting on amendments on the 2012 National Defense Authorization
> Act, the House of Representatives began taking
> action<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/asserting-war-powers-hous_b_867991.html>
> to
> limit U.S. military involvement in Libya's civil war.
> 
> Now the House leadership has agreed to a vote onHouse Concurrent Resolution
> 51 <http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.CON.RES.51:>, introduced by
> Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich, which would direct the President,
> pursuant to the War Powers Resolution, to remove U.S. armed forces from the
> Libya war. The vote could come as early as Wednesday afternoon.
> 
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/kucinich-calls-the-questi_b_869470.html
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org

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