[ April 18, 2024 ]
The House Appropriations Committee — Democrats and Republicans, both — voted to revoke a 2001 law giving the president the legal authority to go to war against al-Qaeda and terror-tied affiliates, absent congressional apporval.
THe amendment rescinds the Authorization for the Use of Force, and comes by way of an attachment to the $658 billion Department of Defense spending bill.
Rep. Kay Granger, a Republican from Texas, was the only lawmaker to dissent.
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From Breitbart:
Granger (R-TX), the chairwoman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, argu[ed] that the policy has no place in a spending bill, reports the Hill.
Passed shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. homeland, American presidents have since used the AUMF to justify military action against various jihadist groups, including al-Qaeda foe the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
ISIS was originally an al-Qaeda offshoot, but the terrorist group broke away from Osama bin Laden’s organization in 2014.
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced the measure, which does have some bipartisan support on the other side of the Capitol from Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Tim Kaine (D-VA).
The amendment would repeal “the overly broad 2001 Authorization of Use of Military Force, after a period of 8 months after the enactment of this act, giving the administration and Congress sufficient time to decide what measures should replace it,” said the California Democrat.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee questioned its appropriations counterpart’s authority to pass such a measure, saying the panel does not have jurisdiction.
“House Rules state that ‘a provision changing existing law may not be reported in a general appropriation bill.’ The Foreign Affairs Committee has sole jurisdiction over Authorizations for the Use of Military Force,” argued Cory Fritz, the Foreign Affairs panel’s deputy staff director for communications, reports the Hill.
The measure would revoke the AUMF 240 days after the defense appropriations bill is enacted by the full Congress, forcing U.S. lawmakers to pass a new authorization in the interim to continue combating ISIS, al-Qaeda, and their respective affiliates.
Congress has been unable to pass a new AUMF to combat ISIS and al-Qaeda.
After approving the defense spending legislation Thursday, the appropriations committee sent the bill to the House floor for a vote.
Seemingly surprised, Democrat Congresswoman Lee welcomed the approval of her amendment, blasting the AUMF as “a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.”
Rep. Lee seized the opportunity to condemn President Trump as “erratic” and inexperienced.
“This issue is more urgent given the erratic behavior and inexperience of our current Commander-in-Chief,” declared the lawmaker. “No president should have a blank check for endless war, least of all President Donald Trump.”
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30 Comments
6 years ago
Apparently, we still have a lot of voting to do. Any leftist vermin politician and RINOS reading this, you’d better start packing your bags, mf’er, because we ARE going to rid the US of you.
6 years ago
Reply to
Pray Hard
Everyone needs to get the word out in their states/towns about the Rino’s/corrupt politician’s. If you have local newspapers, write an opinion letter to the editor!
6 years ago
Reply to
Pray Hard
All RINOS and leftist Dems need to be voted out of office. We will send them packing!!
6 years ago
“Rep. Lee seized the opportunity to condemn President Trump as “erratic” and inexperienced”. Lee is an imbecile, he couldn’t manage an ice cream truck, like every other incompetent, he criticizes those with ability.
D
6 years ago
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AlgorithmicAnalyst
Ah, the place where the collective IQ is smaller than most people’s shoe size.
6 years ago
What a bunch of scum these Congresspeople are. They attach a policy change to a spending bill so that, if Trump doesn’t sign it, he can be accused of refusing to fund the military. Thank God for people like Congresswoman Granger who speak out against this crap!
6 years ago
Time to respond to the war of Leftism against us. Make them illegal and prosecute them.
D
6 years ago
Rep Lee is Human? Could have fooled me…….
6 years ago
WoW! Nothing like weakening your fellow Americans’ position by telling your savage enemy you’re a defiant traitor willing to stand up to your own people, while those who would just as soon behead you laugh theirs off. The quisling Obama did that throughout the 8 years of hell he gave illegitimate birth to and presided over. You’d think these idiots on both sides of the aisle wanted to prove to the Islamic enemy that America isn’t too big to fail; not with such desertion reeking from the bipartisan anti-Trumps and dpatriot-challenged..
6 years ago
This authorization was passed in response to 9/11 which precipitated a war we are still fighting, despite Obhammud’s state of denial and precipitous pullout from the conflict. What’s the matter, 9/11 wasn’t enough for you?
6 years ago
Communist who belongs in Prison for Treason.
6 years ago
If they didn’t block it, they wouldn’t have their jobs. It’s all about them, you see. Not you.
Mayhem and misery is their MO so they can have a job.
6 years ago
Reply to
Alleged Comment
The job they’re not doing isn’t the one that we pay for it. It’s the job the lobbyists are paying them to do that they do.
6 years ago
“This issue is more urgent given the erratic behavior and inexperience of our current Commander-in-Chief,” declared the lawmaker. “No president should have a blank check for endless war, least of all President Donald Trump.”
When I pause to think about that, I would have to agree.
6 years ago
We gave the so called conservative GOP the power to do what the people want but instead they have fought to stop our president every step of the way! They had better change because the alternative is a 2nd American revolution. The Republican party is run by RINOS who work hand in hand with the progressive democrats at the whim of globalists like George Soros!
6 years ago
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James Stamulis
Contact your representative and let them know that they are on your watch list and you will spread the word.
6 years ago
VOTE THESE SKANKY SEEL OUT REPUBLICANS OUT OF OFFICE> HAD TRUMP NOT DROPPED MOAB WHEN HE DID OUR PEOPLE WOULD HAVE HAD CASUALTIES> IF CONGRESS IS NOT GOING TO BACK THE PEOPLES CHOICE AS PRESIDENT VOTE THEM OUT> EVEN IF WE LOSE THE HOUSE WE WONT BE ANY WORSE OFF THEN WE ARE NOW WITH THIS DO NOTHING OBSTRUCTIONIST SELL OUT CONGRESS>I will be working every single day until election to get these skanks out of frigging office.
6 years ago
6 years ago
What? Are u kidding me? Congress gave Hussein permission to do just about anything he wanted. Trump just has to go ahead and do what he sees is right to Al Qaeda to eliminate them and their buddies ISIS.
Congress are a bunch of imbeciles!
6 years ago
Barbara Lee, (D) CA, apparently had no problem with Barrack Obama launching drone strikes and military operations wherever and whenever he wanted. But, with Mr. Trump as president, the situation has changed.
My, but the (Democrat) worm has turned.
6 years ago
Remember these GOP and Demoncrats when the next election comes up. They fear Trump because he doesn’t play their game. They’re like the Pharisees who feared Christ and hated him because he didn’t play their wicked games. They piped a tune but he didn’t dance. They sang a dirge and he didn’t weep. And the more wealthy and entrenched these trough-feeders pigs are, the harder they fight to keep the status quo. Washington needs to be washed of all these flies fattening themselves on the filth of the world.
6 years ago
no dem should ever be allowed to serve in any gov capacity, ever.
