Out of Iraq caucus members including Maxine Waters and Lynne Woolsey of California voted against the measure. They say they cannot vote for more funding for the war. Antiwar Democrats have also criticized the bill because the timetable is nonbinding. On the Republican side, House Minority Leader John Boehner called the bill a measure of surrender.

House Minority Leader John Boehner: “We can look it up, and we can walk out. We can walk out on Iraq just like we did in Lebanon, just like we did in Vietnam, just like we did in Somalia, and we will leave chaos in our wake.”