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11. Barbara Lee

Reply to Ping Tung (Reply #3)

Tue Apr 29, 2025, 09:04 PM

Apr 29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_of_2001

On September 14, 2001, the House passed House Joint Resolution 64. The totals in the House of Representatives were 420 ayes, 1 nay and 10 not voting.

The sole nay vote was by Barbara Lee, D-CA. Lee was the only member of either house of Congress to vote against the bill. Lee opposed the wording of the AUMF, not the action it represented.

She believed that a response was necessary but feared the vagueness of the document was similar to the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Lee has initiated several attempts to repeal the authorization.

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