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On the recordSeptember 16, 2015
I want to supplement my remarks from last week with some insights from Alan Dershowitz's book ``The Case Against the Iran Deal.'' All of us received a copy of this last week. I read it last week. Incidentally, Mr. Dershowitz has been a consultant to several Presidential commissions and has advised Presidents, U.N. officials, Prime Ministers, Governors, Senators, and Members of Congress. He has sold more than 1 million copies of his books worldwide in a dozen different languages, and he is a law professor emeritus at Harvard. He is an accomplished attorney and has been active in politics. I make that point because Mr. Dershowitz endorsed President Obama in 2008. So I think his comments might be particularly telling. I want to start by discussing the point Mr. Dershowitz makes that I find the most intriguing. ``The President is not the Commander in Chief of Foreign Policy.'' Mr. Dershowitz notes that the Constitution does not make the President Commander in Chief, period; rather, article II, section 2, clause 1 of the Constitution makes the President ``Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into actual Service of the United States.'' Mr.…
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Mike Enzi
Republican · Wyoming
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Sep 16, 2015

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