Don’t hold your breath, our colleague Mark Benjamin writes at TIME’s Battleland blog. The House appears poised to vote on an amendment to a defense appropriations bill that would cut off funding to the war non-hostile armed conflict in North Africa. While the measure could find support among the bipartisan cadre of members irked by the Obama Administration’s decision to sidestep the War Powers Resolution, the move is likely to stall in the upper chamber, if it makes it that far. Mark explains:
The Senate is unlikely to take up the Pentagon spending bill for months. When it does, a similar effort in that chamber to cut off Libya money would face stiff headwinds from Republicans like South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and Arizona Sen. John McCain, who sometimes seem to support any war, anywhere, anytime, and White House allies like Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry. So the amendment might not pass the Senate even if that vote occurred months from now.
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