WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives will vote February 16 on a resolution opposing deployment of 21,500 additional American troops to Iraq, one week after Republicans blocked a similar vote in the Senate, the House majority leader, Rep. Steny Hoyer, said.

“We’re going to make a clear statement next week that we do not support this escalation,” Mr. Hoyer, a Democrat of Maryland, said on the NBC program “Meet the Press.” Democrats will limit the debate to the single measure and probably won’t let Republicans bring up an alternative, he said.

While the resolution is nonbinding, it would deal the President Bush a congressional rebuke of his Iraq policy and turn attention back to the Senate, where a handful of Republicans who back the White House erected procedural hurdles last week to block the start of a debate on the war.

Mr. Hoyer said the House would spend much of the week debating the measure. The House minority leader, Rep. John Boehner, a Republican of Ohio, said most Republicans would oppose the resolution and that many Democrats would too if it were binding. He said Democratic leaders were reneging on an earlier promise to allow debate on a Republican alternative.

Congressional Democrats and most Republicans are at an impasse over how to react to Mr. Bush’s proposal for a “surge” of soldiers and Marines to help quell violence in Iraq. America had about 132,000 troops in Iraq when the president announced his plan and some of the additional forces already have arrived in the country.

Mr. Hoyer said the Bush administration’s insistence on sending more troops ignores recommendation from an independent panel that studied the situation, as well as the outcome of the November elections that turned control of Congress over to Democrats for the first time in a decade.

“It’s time for a new policy,” Mr. Hoyer said. “This isn’t a new policy.” He said the resolution would focus on expressing support for troops already stationed in Iraq and opposing the escalation.

Mr. Boehner responded that the addition of more troops would be carefully evaluated for two to three months to determine how effective it is and whether Iraqis can be adequately trained to provide better security.

“Victory is the only option,” Mr. Boehner said on the NBC program.

Adding to the Iraq debate last week was a Pentagon inspector general’s report that said a former Defense Department official, Douglas Feith, and his staff exaggerated links between Iraq and Al Qaeda in pre-war assessments for the White House.

Mr. Feith, who is a former undersecretary for policy, defended the assessments as “good government” and an appropriate check on the Central Intelligence Agency.

“It was a criticism,” Mr. Feith said on the “Fox News Sunday” program. “It’s healthy to criticize the CIA’s intelligence. What the people in the Pentagon were doing was right.”

Mr. Feith set up two offices before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq that produced reports that formed the basis for the administration’s key pre-war claim that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein might provide weapons of mass destruction to the terrorist group.

Mr. Feith said in the television interview that Pentagon officials were concerned that CIA analysts were “filtering” their intelligence and neglecting information that suggested an Iraq-Al Qaeda relationship.