"The Corker-Kaine AUMF would authorize force, without operational limitations, against eight groups in six countries."
"The President does not have that authority."
"Authorization was not given for a global war on 'terror' or against radical Islamists or separatists or insurgents in various civil wars."
"If we are still at war 17 years from now, if Kaine-Corker passes and there are no limits on war, let it be known that there were at least some of us who warned."
"We are giving up authority that was constitutionally given to us."
"the top priority for this Senate must be to ensure that S.J. Res. 59, the Corker-Kaine AUMF, does not become law."
"I think that it is important that we review these again."
"We have completely abdicated it. There is a bipartisan group of us who would like to grab that back, but I can tell you, we are in the minority."
"The damage would be colossal. Not only would it almost irretrievably cede to the Executive Branch the most fundamental power that Congress has under Article I of the Constitution--the power to declare..."
"A President with one-third plus one in either House can wage war on any target at any time the President chooses to do so."
"I say, 'Well, that is one check, but that is not the'--we have a check on the initiation of war and then on the continuation through spending."