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Robert Torricelli: “I rise today in defense of that conservative idea, because cutting off appropriations is not an answer, and in an age…”

On the recordJune 7, 1995
I rise today in defense of that conservative idea, because cutting off appropriations is not an answer, and in an age with the technology today that exists, when the gentleman from Illinois is correct that war may no longer be formally declared, to give that power to one man is more dangerous than when Lyndon Johnson had it, more dangerous than when Franklin Delano Roosevelt had it. This constitutional system serves best by insisting that the Congress share in that right, and that the lessons of Vietnam and the opportunities of the Persian Gulf remain with us.
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Robert Torricelli
New Jersey

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Defending the principle of shared power in the American constitutional system during a debate.

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