The total cost of United States operations is expected to top $1 billion by the end of September.
In an effort to avert a vote that would embarrass the administration, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with scores of House Democrats on Thursday afternoon to urge them to vote against the resolution limiting funds, insisting that the collective effort in Libya was close to ousting Colonel Qaddafi.
The votes on Friday followed two hours of fascinating and sometimes fierce debate that was unlike any other in this 112th Congress.
“We don’t have enough wars going on?” asked Representative Dennis J. Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, on the House floor. “We have to wage war against another nation which did not attack us?”
Mr. Kucinich’s remarks were echoed in part by Representative Dan Burton of Indiana, a Republican member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, who said, “We’re adding to the debt by going into a war we shouldn’t be in.”
He added: “My big concern is not just Libya. My big concern is this president, unless we send a very strong message to him, may take us into Syria. There are a lot of wars of opportunity.”
But Democrats and some Republicans also chastised members for deserting a NATO-led mission right in the middle of operations. “Now is the time to stand together against a murderous dictator,” said Representative James P. Moran, a liberal Democrat from Virginia.
Agreeing with him was Representative Adam Kinzinger, a freshman Republican from Illinois, an Iraq war veteran and supporter of American involvement in Libya. “The vote we have on the House today will have implications far beyond our shores and far into the future,” he said.
Correction: June 28, 2011
Because of an editing error, an article on Saturday about Congressional votes on United States military involvement in Libya misstated the outcome if the Senate passed a resolution proposed by Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona. Such a vote would express only the Senate’s support for the Libya mission. The resolution would require approval by the House as well for full Congressional authorization of United States military involvement.
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