It just strikes me as something not worthy of the Congress, when we actually continue to fall into a false narrative, to...
the position would not be 'support,' and the position would not be 'opposed';... it would be 'I do not know what the adm...
I personally believe must be repealed.
I feel it is time to seriously consider what options and tools we have to counter what appears to be a continued, and, i...
There is no issue more important to our national security than whether to use military force.
I have a number of concerns about the AUMF.
I do not think that is what Congress intended.
the prospect of repealing the AUMF is precisely what the President has functionally asked us to do
the AUMF provides broad authority to use force against al-Qaeda, the Taliban
So, there would not be a worry about the absence of an AUMF affecting DOD's CT operations.
There would be some potential effect on ongoing operations, in the absence of an AUMF, that you would--
Carte blanche is a bad thing. Time to get done with the carte blanche grant of authority to the Executive.
Congress put in it no temporal or geographic limitation.
But, to my colleagues, this is something that I think only we can solve.
the absence of an AUMF could affect the legality of United States presence in Afghanistan
The administration does not have a current position about whether it would support an AUMF repeal.
the single thing he cited was that the United States should reauthorize the assault weapons ban.
We have to have rules of engagement and setting down some markers with respect to those rules is long overdue.
