We were doing that, but we ought to have been doing more. Why wait until an election and then come up all of a sudden and say, Oh, we have got to have this S.J. Res., we have got to put into the hands of one man the trust and the temptation, which Madison so well spoke against because it was too much, too great for any one man? The gulf war, does the Senator remember the total cost of that war?
Discussing concerns over granting excessive power to a single individual in the context of war resolutions.
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