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  A remarkable thing happened in Washington Thursday morning, especially given the vituperative atmosphere of politics today. Legislators introduced substantive legislation that is good policy, and a policy that The Heritage Foundation has been   advocating   for years. A large bipartisan group of 22 Senators  introduced  legislation to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Iraq Authorizations for the Use of Military Force, or AUMF. Repealing the two AUMFs is  sound policy . As we have  written  previously, these two war authorizations remain in force, even though their purposes were accomplished a long time ago. Sources inform me that the votes to repeal both AUMFs are secured so that the measure will pass the Senate. Similarly, in the House, Reps. Tom Cole, R-Okla., and Chip Roy, R-Texas, have joined forces with Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., and Barbara Lee, D-Calif., to repeal the two vestigial war authorizations as well. It’s remarkable that these four House ...