Republicans who opposed repealing the 2002 authorization said that like with the 2001 measure, it should be replaced because Iraq is still home to terror groups that threaten the U.S. "I think we have the same goal in mind, we just have a different way of getting there," Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, the committee's top Republican, said of the effort to scrap the 2002 authorization.
McCaul called for consultations with executive branch officials and the Iraqi government first in order to craft a replacement. "Real AUMF reform requires Congress and the administration working together on actual text to replace the aging 2001 and 2002 AUMFs to provide authorities needed to keep the American people, and, most importantly, our deployed troops, safe from terrorists," McCaul said. [See details of HR256/SJR10/HR3261]
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