Defense News: WASHINGTON — A proposal to end the 2001 authorization of the use of military force and any operations conducted under it was stripped from a House measure to fund the Pentagon in 2018.
The House Rules Committee stripped the provision from the bill late Tuesday. It had been sponsored by Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., and surprisingly backed by Democrats and Republicans on the Appropriations Committee on June 29.
In a series of tweets late Tuesday, Lee accused House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., of orchestrating its removal, calling the move underhanded and undemocratic.
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