long past time for Congress to reassert its critical constitutional role in matters of war, peace, diplomacy and trade.

Where will this go next? Will the President deploy our troops to protect Iranian protesters? To enforce the fragile ceasefire in Gaza? To battle terrorists in Nigeria? To seize Greenland or the Panama Canal? To suppress Americans peacefully assembling to protest his policies? Trump has threatened to do all this and more and sees no need to seek legal authorization from people’s elected legislature before putting servicemembers at risk.

clearly illegal

Only Congress can declare war — or in the modern phrase contained in the 1973 War Powers Resolution, authorize the use of military force in hostilities.

It was time to 'close the book' on the wars.

We’re going to have the health-care debate in full view of the American public, and they’re going to see who’s standing up for them on affordability and who’s not.

If that reporting is true, it's a clear violation of the DoD's own laws of war, as well as international laws about the way you treat people who are in that circumstance.

This rises to the level of a war crime if it’s true

It's time for Congress to rein in a president who is deciding to wage war on his own say-so, which is not what the Constitution allowed.

It completely undercuts the administration’s claim that they really care about narco-trafficking, and that raises the question of what is really going on with the Venezuela operation.

The circumstances have changed in the months since we had that vote.