In a major victory for the White House, the Senate early Friday voted 77 to 23 -- joining the House -- to authorize President Bush to commit U.S. troops to enforce U.N. Security Council resolutions requiring that Iraq give up weapons of mass destruction.

Hours earlier, the House approved an identical resolution, 296 to 133.
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The measure passed the Senate and House by wider margins than the 1991 resolution that empowered the current president's father to go to war to expel Iraq from Kuwait. That measure passed 250-183 in the House and 52-47 in the Senate.

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