{"id":63213,"date":"2015-12-10T17:32:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T22:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63213"},"modified":"2015-12-10T17:32:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T22:32:22","slug":"congress-may-authorize-war-against-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63213","title":{"rendered":"Congress may authorize war against ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hill<\/a> reports that Congress has finally decided that maybe they’ll authorize the use of force against ISIS, you know, since we’ve already had US casualties in that war. One authorization introduced today is bipartisan and bicameral;<\/p>\n

Reps. Scott Rigell (R-Va.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) introduced the legislation, a companion bill to a measure in the Senate offered by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). <\/p>\n

It would expire after three years unless reauthorized, repeal the Iraq War authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) and be the sole authorization for the war against ISIS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m just wondering how people like Bernie Sanders will vote. Remember he voted against the Authorization for the Use of Military Force in Iraq last time when he was in the House. But now he wants to be the president, so….<\/p>\n

“However one may define it, we are in a war right now,” said Rigell, who noted that with a new House Speaker, lawmakers may be more amenable to tackling difficult issues in a bipartisan manner. <\/p>\n

“We must not fear ISIS nor should we fear the debate about how to defeat ISIS,” he said. <\/p>\n

“Congress has been absent,” added Welch. “It’s time that Congress did its job.” <\/p>\n

Flake agreed that some colleagues “just don’t want to get on the record here,” but he said they would do their best to bring it to a vote. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

60% of Democrats in the House and 42% of Democrats in the Senate voted against the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force in Iraq, I wonder if they’ll be more receptive to a Democrat President and the war he created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hill reports that Congress has finally decided that maybe they’ll authorize the use of force … Congress may authorize war against ISIS<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}