WASHINGTON (AFP) ? The US Senate next week will take up a resolution authorizing limited US strikes on Libya as part of NATO-led operations, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday.
"We are going to spend some time next week on the Libyan resolution," Reid told reporters.
Reid's announcement came a day after President Barack Obama, under heavy fire for not securing congressional permission to attack Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi's forces, insisted the US military's role was limited and legal.
The resolution, which cleared the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, restates Obama's goal of toppling Kadhafi and greenlights the US role for one year or for the duration of NATO operations.
The panel acted days after the US House of Representatives last week defeated a bill to authorize US operations against Libya and rejected another measure that would have cut funding for direct US combat strikes on Libyan targets.
Opposition to Obama's Libya policy, fueled by polls showing it is broadly unpopular with the US public, remained fractured and unlikely to settle on a strategy that could ultimately force the president to change course.
The Senate resolution prohibits sending US ground troops into Libya and includes a message that the Libyan people and Arab League nations that urged US intervention should pay for reconstruction costs.
The measure also flatly rejects the White House's legal argument that US forces are not engaged in "hostilities" and therefore Obama did not need to get congressional approval under the 1973 War Powers Resolution.
The Senate measure also prohibits the president from sending ground forces or contractors into Libya to take on post-Kadhafi roles like peacekeeping.
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