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“Thank you very much, Madam Speaker… I am so pleased to join my colleague from Maryland, [Rep.] John Sarbanes, who has been such a leader on this issues, thank you very much. His father and I were very, very close, and I’ve become very close to his son, and his son has demonstrated the same kind of integrity and focus on good government that his father did. [Rep.] Ben Ray Lujan, the Assistant Speaker, thank you for your galvanizing, certainly for the freshman class, on this issue. And [Rep.] Chris Pappas, thank you very much for being a representative of that freshman class, and [Rep.] Tom O’Halleran, who has been very much in [this issue]. And thank you, of course, our leader on the [Committee on House Administration], [Rep.]  Zoe Lofgren.
 

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) announced Wednesday afternoon that the week the House returns from the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. District Work Period, it will consider bills introduced by Reps. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) to repeal the 2002 Congressional authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) against Iraq and prevent taxpayer funding from being used to take military action against Iran without congressional authorization, respectively.  On January 9, in a bipartisan vote, the House passed a resolution demanding that President Trump terminate the use of U.S. Armed Forces to engage in hostilities against Iran without Congressional authorization.