John Sarbanes: “I think that is a point we have not really touched on much in this debate, but I think it is an extremely important…”

“I think that is a point we have not really touched on much in this debate, but I think it is an extremely important point. What has happened--you pass this resolution, you make a major grant of war-making authority to the President, but then if subsequently you decide it ought to be pulled back or ought not be exercised by the President, it is extraordinarily difficult to do that, so not only have you given the President this broad power to begin with, but the way the system is constructed, he can hold on to that power, even if a majority of both Houses of the Congress which gave the power want to take it back. Is that not correct?”