I think it's important that the Presidents come to us and ask for an authorization.
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In my view, this document is trying to strike a balance between presidential authority and congressional authority in the area of, particularly, warmaking.
I think that's just part of the reality that we face there. Plus, we have--for the first time in, I don't know, living memory, have a real partner that we can work with who has a chance to make Afghanistan work.
It would be a grave mistake to withdraw from Afghanistan on an arbitrary timeframe not based upon conditions on the ground.
I think there is a question, here. If it's entirely open-ended, in terms of time, in terms of enemy, in terms of geography, then we've written the war power out of the Constitution, as far as I'm concerned, and the Congress has no role.
In the 112th Congress, I was an original cosponsor of a joint resolution that disapproved of a nearly identical rule issued by the NLRB.