The time to pass repeal and replace of the 2001 AUMF legislation is now long overdue.

Congress has to make the decision. Congress is in charge. There is no partnership. We make the decision. We take the vote.

Article 1 of the Constitution gives Congress alone the authority to declare war, and I believe it is our most solemn power.

A repeal-and-replace bill should, however, retain the President's authority to target non-State actors that have the capability and intention to attack our homeland.

I do think operations like the 2022 strike against Al Qaeda's leader in 9/11, plotter Ayman al-Zawahiri, should be authorized by Congress.

I will not vote for anything that does not put an affirmative obligation in the U.S. Congress to cast a vote to use force. Period.

I think one of the strengths we see still to this day in things like the D/ISIS coalition is the really the consistency and sustainability of that coalition.

I voted for that authorization. And though I carry the burden of that vote, not for 1 second do I regret it.

We need Congress to reassert its proper authority over the power to declare war under the Constitution.

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