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The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has scheduled a vote on limiting President Donald Trump’s ability to take military action against Iran after many lawmakers said they were not satisfied by a White House explanation for the targeted killing of a top Iranian general.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the vote on a war powers resolution would take place on January 9, saying that “members of Congress have serious, urgent concerns about the administration’s decision to engage in hostilities against Iran and about its lack of strategy moving forward.”

The resolution directs Trump to terminate the use of the U.S. military in or against Iran, unless Congress declares war or approves an authorization for the use of force against Tehran.

The effectiveness of such a resolution — which is likely to pass in the Democratic-controlled House — was under debate.

Democrats saying the resolution would fall under the 1973 War Powers Act and would be legally binding if also passed in the Senate.

Republicans say the proposal, which would not require a presidential signature, does not have the force of law. Federal courts have never definitively decided the matter.

Republicans control the Senate and a similar resolution would have little chance of passing.

Nevertheless, a handful of Republican lawmakers also expressed dissatisfaction with the January 8 briefing by the White House on the justification for the strike on Major General Qasem Soleimani, who was commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), which have been designated as terror organizations by the United States.

Soleimani was killed on January 3 while traveling in Iraq, angering Tehran and leading to a retaliatory missile strike against a base housing U.S. troops in Iraq. There were no reports of injuries in the missile strike.

Democrats have said the killing of Soleimani was reckless and could lead the country into a war with Iran.

Following the White House briefing on January 8, Pelosi called the strike “provocative and disproportionate.”

Freshman Democratic Representative Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., the measure’s sponsor, said that “I think it’s extremely important that we as a country, if we are going to — either intentionally or accidentally — slide into war, that we have a debate about it.”

Slotkin is a former CIA analyst and Pentagon official who served in Iraq.

Meanwhile, Republican Senator Mike Lee – in an unusual rebuke of the president — said the White House briefing was the worst he had heard in his nine years in the Senate, at least on a military issue, and that he would support the war powers resolution in that chamber.

“What I found so distressing about that briefing was that one of the messages we received from the briefers was do not debate, do not discuss the issue of the appropriateness of further military intervention against Iran and that if you do, you will be emboldening Iran,” Lee said.

However, another Republican senator, Roy Blunt, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Soleimani was the “No. 1 terrorist mastermind” and that Trump had sent an important signal to U.S. adversaries and friends “that the president is going to make the hard decisions.”

Trump broke precedent by not informing congressional leaders before the strike against the Iranian commander.

Trump and other members of the administration have defended the assassination of Soleimani, saying the Iranian had orchestrated attacks on U.S. troops and allies and was in the process of planning further terror actions.

The United States also defended its actions in a letter to the United Nations late on January 8, calling the attack on Soleimani “self-defense” under Article 51 of the UN Charter, adding that it was prepared to take additional action in the Middle East “as necessary” to protect its interests.

At the same time, it told the UN that it is “ready to engage without preconditions in serious negations with Iran” to prevent escalation by Tehran, according to the letter seen by Reuters.

With reporting by AP and Reuters