Jim Risch actually said...

At the end of the day, it is Afghans who need to be the agents, with our help, but the agents of their own liberation.

Emphasizes the importance of Afghan leadership in their own liberation from the Taliban.

10/06/2009

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the line of who is legislating here has just gone out the window.

this is really, really simple. You come up here with a bill, and you say, This is what we want to do.

It is ultra vires. It raises serious separation-of-powers issues.

we really, really believe that the legislative branch is in charge of legislating and that you guys are in charge of executing what the legi...