The War On Terror Shall Continue: House Rejects Bid To End The Endless War On Terror

[Cali_Democrat]

WASHINGTON -- With U.S. forces leaving Afghanistan and gone from Iraq, Congress reaffirmed America's endless war Wednesday, with the House of Representatives voting against an amendment to end the authorization to use military force, or AUMF, that was passed in the wake of Sept. 11.

The provision, offered by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), would have given the authorization a sunset date of a year from the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015, which Schiff was trying to amend.

"Without a sunset, I am convinced that a year from now, we will be exactly where we are today, continuing to rely on increasingly legally unreliable AUMF," Schiff said in floor debate Wednesday night.

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