I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2829 
To clarify that Congress has not provided authorization for the use of military 
force against Iran. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 17, 2019 
Mr. LEVIN of Michigan (for himself and Mr. MASSIE) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To clarify that Congress has not provided authorization for 
the use of military force against Iran. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘AUMF Clarification 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The 2001 Authorization for Use of Military 
Force (Public Law 107–40; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note) 
authorizes the President to use ‘‘necessary and ap-
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propriate force against those nations, organizations, 
or persons he determines planned, authorized, com-
mitted, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred 
on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organiza-
tions or persons’’. 
(2) Iran and Al Qaeda historically have been 
adversaries. A 2018 analysis of declassified docu-
ments obtained during the 2011 raid on Osama bin 
Laden’s compound found that ‘‘[Al Qaeda] views 
Iran as a hostile entity’’ and ‘‘examined documents 
provide no evidence of cooperation between [Al 
Qaeda] and Iran on planning or carrying out ter-
rorist attacks’’. 
(3) The Authorization for Use of Military Force 
Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107– 
243; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note) authorizes the President 
‘‘to use the Armed Forces of the United States as 
he determines to be necessary and appropriate in 
order to (1) defend the national security of the 
United States against the continuing threat posed by 
Iraq; and (2) enforce all relevant United Nations Se-
curity Council resolutions regarding Iraq’’. 
(4) On May 5, 2019, National Security Advisor 
Ambassador John Bolton announced the deployment 
of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group 
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and a bomber task force to the United States Cen-
tral Command region as a response ‘‘to a number of 
troubling and escalatory indications and warnings’’ 
from Iran and ‘‘to send a clear and unmistakable 
message to the Iranian regime that any attack on 
United States interests or on those of our allies will 
be met with unrelenting force’’. 
(5) Congress has not authorized the use of mili-
tary force against Iran. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that Congress has not au-
thorized the use of military force against Iran under the 
Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Res-
olution of 2002 (Public Law 107–243; 50 U.S.C. 1541 
note), the Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public 
Law 107–40; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note), or any other provision 
of law enacted before the date of the enactment of this 
Act. 
SEC. 4. CLARIFICATION. 
Nothing in the Authorization for Use of Military 
Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107– 
243; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note), the Authorization for Use of 
Military Force (Public Law 107–40; 50 U.S.C. 1541 
note), or any other provision of law enacted before the 
date of the enactment of this Act may be construed to 
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provide authorization for the use of military force against 
Iran. 
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