[Source.](https://thenewamerican.com/house-shoots-down-resolutions-ending-iraq-libya-syria-emergencies/) > Any doubts that Congress favors permanent, presidentially declared war were put to rest last Tuesday when the House of Representatives overwhelmingly rejected five resolutions aimed at ending longstanding “national emergencies” related to Iraq, Libya, and other countries. > Representative Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) led the charge to repeal five of the 41 ongoing national emergencies that presidents have declared in the 47 years since the National Emergencies Act (NEA) was passed. The oldest of these dates to 1979. > “Problems lasting years, decades even, are not emergencies and should not be treated as such,” Gosar said in a statement. “Rather, they should be addressed by Congress with due process, debate and transparency, not with endless emergency declarations which give neo-cons, warmongers, the military industrial complex and bureaucrats free reign [sic] to control policy and spending.”