“A bill to prohibit the unauthorized use of United States Armed Forces in hostilities with respect to Venezuela.”
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This section prohibits the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available for the Department of Defense or any other U.S. government department or agency to conduct hostilities with respect to Venezuela, except pursuant to (1) a specific statutory authorization enacted after the date of enactment of this Act or (2) a congressional authorization consistent with section 2(c) of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1541(c)). The prohibition does not apply to U.S. actions to defend itself or its citizens from an armed attack or imminent threat thereof, to defend U.S. Armed Forces or personnel from an armed attack, to conduct lawful counternarcotics operations that do not constitute hostilities, or to provide humanitarian assistance to the people of Venezuela. In this section, hostilities means any situation involving the use of lethal or potentially lethal force by U.S. forces, whether deployed remotely and irrespective of intermittency. This section does not supersede requirements of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1541 et seq.).