On the recordMay 15, 2013
None of us, not one who voted for the AUMF, could have envisioned we were about to give future Presidents the authority to fight terrorism as far flung as Yemen and Somalia.
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Durbin reflects on the unforeseen consequences of the AUMF's broad authority.
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