[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2829 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2829

To clarify that Congress has not provided authorization for the use of 
                      military force against Iran.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 17, 2019

   Mr. Levin of Michigan (for himself and Mr. Massie) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To clarify that Congress has not provided authorization for the use of 
                      military force against Iran.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``AUMF Clarification Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force 
        (Public Law 107-40; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note) authorizes the 
        President to use ``necessary and appropriate force against 
        those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, 
        authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that 
        occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations 
        or persons''.
            (2) Iran and Al Qaeda historically have been adversaries. A 
        2018 analysis of declassified documents obtained during the 
        2011 raid on Osama bin Laden's compound found that ``[Al Qaeda] 
        views Iran as a hostile entity'' and ``examined documents 
        provide no evidence of cooperation between [Al Qaeda] and Iran 
        on planning or carrying out terrorist attacks''.
            (3) The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against 
        Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243; 50 U.S.C. 1541 
        note) authorizes the President ``to use the Armed Forces of the 
        United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate 
        in order to (1) defend the national security of the United 
        States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq; and (2) 
        enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council 
        resolutions regarding Iraq''.
            (4) On May 5, 2019, National Security Advisor Ambassador 
        John Bolton announced the deployment of the U.S.S. Abraham 
        Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the 
        United States Central Command region as a response ``to a 
        number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings'' 
        from Iran and ``to send a clear and unmistakable message to the 
        Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or on 
        those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force''.
            (5) Congress has not authorized the use of military force 
        against Iran.

SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that Congress has not authorized the 
use of military force against Iran under the Authorization for Use of 
Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243; 50 
U.S.C. 1541 note), the Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public 
Law 107-40; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note), or any other provision of law enacted 
before the date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 4. CLARIFICATION.

    Nothing in the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq 
Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note), the 
Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public Law 107-40; 50 U.S.C. 
1541 note), or any other provision of law enacted before the date of 
the enactment of this Act may be construed to provide authorization for 
the use of military force against Iran.
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