Political Quotes

“Mr. President. I would like to touch on two topics. The first is that today the President has submitted a request for authorization for use of military force with regard to ISIL, or ISIS, as some call it. First, I think it is good news that the President has made that submission, and I think he is right when he says the country is stronger when both Congress and the President act together. I would say there is a pretty simple authorization he could ask for, and it would be one sentence, and that is, ``We authorize the President to defeat and destroy ISIL.'' And that is what I think we need to do. I look forward to reading through his submission. I understand it contains a time limitation. It does not contain geographic limitations. It contains some language that supposedly will make people feel more comfortable about the use of ground troops. An authorization to use force that has limitations built into it is really quite unprecedented. We did some research, and the Congressional Research Service said that there really were only two previous authorizations that have limited the President in terms of the use of force to be used or the duration of the conflict. One was in 1983 in Lebanon, and one was in 1993 in Somalia. Both of those were peacekeeping missions, so it made sense to limit the peacekeeping mission to use of force.…”