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Jack Kingston: “I just want to say as a member of the Appropriations Committee now going on 14 years, I remember several years ago when…”

On the recordJune 26, 2007
I just want to say as a member of the Appropriations Committee now going on 14 years, I remember several years ago when Congressman David Skaggs of Boulder, Colorado, offered an amendment in the committee which reinstituted the War Powers Act, because at that time we were concerned that President Clinton was getting us involved in a war in Bosnia; so we put it on that bill. And I believe last session we put on the continuation of government on an appropriation bill, and I am a firm believer that we do routinely authorize on appropriation bills. We just need to agree with the authorization. So I want to say to my friend I have seen things accepted and things rejected.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia
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Discussing the role of the Appropriations Committee and past amendments related to war powers.

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