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"This resolution is similar to the resolution introduced by
Senator Tim Kaine in the Senate," Pelosi said in a statement
late on Sunday.
"It reasserts Congress's long-established oversight
responsibilities by mandating that if no further Congressional
action is taken, the Administration's military hostilities with
regard to Iran cease within 30 days."
The resolution is likely to win approval in the Democratic-led
House, but prospects for passage are less certain in the Senate,
which is controlled by Trump's fellow Republicans, many of whom
have said they support the president's action on Iran.
Iraq's parliament called for U.S. and other foreign troops to
leave as the backlash against the U.S. killing on Friday of a
top Iranian general grew, and Trump doubled down on threats to
target Iranian cultural sites if Iran retaliates.
Trump also threatened sanctions against Iraq and said that if
U.S. troops were required to leave, Iraq's government would have
to pay Washington for the cost of a "very extraordinarily
expensive" air base there.
(Reporting by Mekhla Raina in Bengaluru and Timothy Ahmann in
Washington; Editing by Tom Hogue, Robert Birsel)
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