Bipartisan House Group Pushing For Enforcement Of War Powers Act

[maryinthemorn]

I do hope they succeed with this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/15/bipartisan-house-group-pu_n_392971.html


Bipartisan House Group Pushing For Enforcement Of War Powers Act


First Posted: 12-15-09 02:33 PM | Updated: 12-15-09 03:38 PM


Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has pulled together a group of five Republicans and eight Democrats who plan to introduce a special resolution on the House floor compelling the president to comply with the War Powers Act as he wages war in Afghanistan.

Congress has largely ceded its constitutional duty to declare war and has instead been relegated to approving or disapproving war funds -- it hasn't cut off money for a war since Vietnam.

While Kucinich was on the House floor Tuesday debating the war, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) gathered reporters in the Rayburn House Office Building to decry Obama's proposed troop escalation, which Grayson said will only waste lives and money in pursuit of an impossible goal. Grayson had just come from the floor, where he inserted 100,000 names petitioning for an end to the war into the congressional record.

If a war is being waged without a declaration, the War Powers Act allows any representative to introduce a joint resolution forcing the House Committee on Foreign Relations to vote on that resolution within 15 days; Kucinich is hoping to force such a vote. The resolution would then be sent back to the House floor.

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