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

[Robert Naiman]

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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