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.
A President with one-third plus one in either House can wage war on any target at any time the President chooses to do s...
There is no reason for Congress to risk it.
I would argue that the AUMFs are unconstitutional because they do not have an endpoint.
The Corker-Kaine AUMF would authorize force, without operational limitations, against eight groups in six countries.
the top priority for this Senate must be to ensure that S.J. Res. 59, the Corker-Kaine AUMF, does not become law.
Authorization was not given for a global war on 'terror' or against radical Islamists or separatists or insurgents in va...
The President does not have that authority.
My father used to always say there were two things you rarely heard in Washington, and that was either a moral argument ...
We have been at war that long. Even many in the audience here today are young enough that they may not remember 9/11.
If Gaddafi was so evil that he ought to have been killed by American forces, only Congress can unleash those forces.