The House on Friday rejected a resolution that would authorize continued military operations in Libya for one year, and promptly began consideration of a bill that would limit funding for those operations.The resolution, H.J.Res. 68, was rejected in a 123-295 vote that split Democrats much more than it split Republicans. Among Democrats, 115 voted for it and 70 voted against it.
The Republican vote was more one-sided: only 8 voted for it, and 225 voted against.
That's some not-insignificant opposition from Democrats. And, as Greg Sargent pointed out before the vote:
If enough Dems vote for it to create a sense that it has significant bipartisan support ? which seems very possible ? it will stand as an important statement of discomfort with Obama?s continued insistence that he doesn?t need Congressional authorization to continue the war.
I guess the president finally got that bipartisanship he's been wanting.
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