GOP leader: House won't grant president authorization for military strikes against Islamic State militants
In this March 24, 2015 file photo, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. McCarthy said Monday the House will act after the Senate on legislation giving Congress the power to review an emerging Iran nuclear deal. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)
By Bruce Alpert, NOLA.com | Times-Picayune Email the author | Follow on Twitter
on April 13, 2015 at 4:32 PM
WASHSINGTON -- House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.,said Monday (April 13) that the House won't approve President Barack Obama's request for authorization to use military force against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
"I do not see a path to 218 with what the president sent up because the world has become more dangerous since he laid out Yemen as the strategy of how to move forward," McCarthy told reporters. "This would weaken our ability to respond to our current situation."
Josh Earnest, Obama's spokesman, said Congress doesn't seem to want to carry out its role in authorizing military action, while it seems too anxious to try blocking the president's diplomatic efforts aimed at getting Iran to drop its nuclear weapons without military action.
"It seems to me they might have their priorities a little backwards,"Earnest said.
The president said existing authorizations for force given President George W. Bush after the 911 terrorist attacks gives him authority to order aerial strikes against ISIL militants in Syria and Iraq. But he said the military action, backed by a coalition of 60 nations, would benefit from congressional approval.
An authorization, he said when submitting the request to Congress last February, would show "the world that we are united in our resolve to counter" ISIL.
McCarthy said that he will move for a House vote on a bill giving Congress the authority to approve or reject any nuclear deal reached with Iraq -- legislation that the White House opposes.
On Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry was issuing classified briefings to House members on the negotiations with Iran. Iran, the United States, and negotiators from five other nations, must still finalize a framework agreement announced in Switzerland April 2.
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