But all except one of the Democrats' leading presidential candidates supported the congressional resolution authorising force.
Clinton supported the congressional resolution that was the basis for the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq.
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John Kerry and John Edwards -- who supported a congressional resolution authorizing Bush to act against Iraq.
At the end of that time, the project may proceed unless a congressional resolution of disapproval has been enacted.
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He supported the 2002 congressional resolution that authorized President Bush to launch the invasion of Iraq but later became an outspoken critic of the conflict.
Kerry voted against committing U.S. troops in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, but he supported the October congressional resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq.
He voted against committing U.S. troops in the 1991 Persian Gulf War but supported the October congressional resolution authorizing the use of force to disarm Iraq in the current standoff.
Kerry voted for a congressional resolution authorizing Bush to use military force in Iraq but said that if he had been commander in chief, he would have made vastly different decisions with that authority.
"I have said and, in fact, supported a congressional resolution that said we should suspend putting more oil into the strategic oil reserve, but the strategic oil reserve I think has to be reserved for a genuine emergency, " he said on July 7.
The Bangladeshi government withdrew Choudhury's security protection in May, 2008 and has not reinstated it, despite a congressional resolution, HR 64, passed in March, 2007, calling on Bangladesh to provide security protection to Choudhury, to cease harassment of him, and to drop all charges against him.
Halperin argues that the House of Representatives and the Senate would be wise to give serious thought and consideration to the nuclear freeze resolution awaiting congressional action.
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Incoming Republicans leaders say they plan rapid action, ranging from dragging the FCC to the Hill for grilling, to blocking its neutrality order via the Congressional Review Act's "resolution of disapproval" provision.
And he has demonstrated his willingness to try to reach a resolution to this matter with congressional investigators.
Experts are already pointing to the build-up to the first Gulf War in 1991 when President Bush senior - while insisting such a resolution was not necessary - did indeed seek and obtain congressional support for the war to oust Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
Mr DeLay's troops in the House recently forced through a resolution calling for dynamic scoring to be used in the official congressional calculations of the cost of tax cuts.
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