I see that as an institution that could serve us well in trying to find solutions or trying to find compromises when we are in a conflict situation.

So what we have to do is find a way for a compromise where they can actually end these hostilities.

Had he been permitted to be unelected, which was 2 years away, I don't believe there would have been any of this.

This is the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism in the Soviet Union. Let me note, I spent my entire life trying to reach that day.

The last time we gave permission for someone to go into military conflict, the Congress, it was 2001.

A lot of the issues that we talk about in foreign policy... is more sometimes practical, but it has to be practical mixed with what is moral.

I find myself in favor of sunsets.

Our Founders wrestled with this issue over 200 years ago. They knew that by vesting--they could have vested all power in the executive branch, thereby achieving security, secrecy, and flexibility.

We should not be limiting--if we have a goal and it is verified by Congress, we shouldn't put limits on a commitment to the goal.

We don't need to pass a new AUMF to show the world we support our troops.

Since then, every President has said that they don't recognize the binding power of the AUMF but they will often act consistent with it.

If indeed the American people are supportive of a military action and the Congress knows that--and the military and our executive branch knows they are going to have to come before the government again to have an approval, that if the…

It vests in Congress not only the power to declare war but control over the money that funds military operations.

The fact is that at least in that circumstance the President, and others have as well, simply violated the War Powers Act.

The advocates of unlimited executive power without the need for congressional authorization--I am willing to do that as soon as we elect a President who is wiser than Jefferson.

Maybe we should have walked away from Vietnam 4 years into the action rather than let it linger 10 years.

vague authorization--a blank check, if you will--is the opposite of democracy.

Absolutely, those two will come back to Capitol Hill and be in a public session.