Bill Details
S.804 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-27 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text: CR S1431)
Introduced Date
2025-02-27
Policy Area
International Affairs
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This bill would put a time limit on Congress’s approval for war and military force. Under the bill, any new authorization to use military force, or any new declaration of war, would automatically end 10 years after it becomes law. It would also speed up the end of older war authorizations already on the books: those existing approvals would expire 6 months after this bill becomes law. The basic idea is to stop old war powers from lasting forever and to make Congress review them more often.
- Any new war authorization or declaration passed after this bill becomes law would expire after 10 years.
- Any existing war authorization or declaration passed before this bill would expire 6 months after the bill becomes law.
- The bill is meant to prevent open-ended military action and force regular congressional reconsideration.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 804 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 804
To terminate authorizations for the use of military force and
declarations of war no later than 10 years after the enactment of such
authorizations or declarations.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 27, 2025
Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mr. Welch, and Mr. Schiff) introduced the
following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
Foreign Relations
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A BILL
To terminate authorizations for the use of military force and
declarations of war no later than 10 years after the enactment of such
authorizations or declarations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Accountability for Endless Wars Act
of 2025''.
SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF AUTHORIZATIONS FOR THE USE OF MILITARY FORCE AND
DECLARATIONS OF WAR.
(a) Future Authorizations for the Use of Military Force and
Declarations of War.--Any authorization for the use of military force
or declaration of war enacted into law after the date of the enactment
of this Act shall terminate on the date that is 10 years after the date
of the enactment of such authorization or declaration.
(b) Existing Authorizations for the Use of Military Force and
Declarations of War.--Any authorization for the use of military force
or declaration of war enacted before the date of the enactment of this
Act shall terminate on the date that is 6 months after the date of such
enactment.
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