They dont provide support at all. The president s own words and actions the president understands precisely the constitutional argument i made when he ran in 2007. He said the president does not have unilateral power to wage war without congress during absent an actual or imminent attack on the United States. Of articlee limits ii. Limitationsds the of the 2001 ums who said we shouldnt be broadening that a withhat was put together no geographic limitation and no temporal limitation. We should be narrowing it. We should be refining it during we should be ultimately on the path to repeal it. With respect to the 2002 iraq authorization that the administration now claims give support for the mission, just a few months ago, we had a hearing on it. Administration witnesses can repair to be asked on it. It the position of the administration that it should be obsolete and now be repealed . I would be i would argue that the residence onwards as a candidate and as a president is he understands t
It is my hope i know the president would welcome us. I hope their team will realize that it is not just a matter of welcoming. They should realize it is more likely to work out better if they do it with congress. The pay for, very tough question. We have a cr as well as a syrian authorization on the training of equipment, but we will have to grapple with a longerterm appropriations, not another cr. I am fully expecting, as part of that for there to be funding requests. But that is another reason why congress should debate the stuff up front. We ought to be asking the question, how much will it cost and how are we going to pay for it . Iraq and afghanistan were the first wars that United States decides to do on a credit card. Iraq and afghanistan were the first to where we said, we can kind of do this, members of Congress Kids wont get drafted now. We can get blackwater or a thirdparty to do stuff we dont want to ask troops to do. There has been a progressive executive overreach by putt
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Good afternoon. I am delighted to welcome you to the brookingss decision Brookings Institution. I am even more delighted to welcome sylvia burwell, burwell, tolvia this event at brookings. I have known sylvia a long time. Over 20 years. Sylviafirst encountered in the clinton administration, i thought of her as that friendly, competent young woman who worked for bob rubin at the National Economic council. I learned that sylvia was the go to person and a cando person. That was a useful person to have around. I also learned that she liked to keep in touch with real people out around america, not just in washington. And that she grew up in West Virginia. One day, i found myself in a hard hat, deep underground in West Virginia in a coal mine with sylvia, barbara ven and rich trumka. I was not the only one who noticed that sylvia was competent and levelheaded hearing the president notice to that, president clinton. By the end of the administration, she was the director of shes had a distingu
At 60 miles an hour. So near south of hilo. 60 miles an hour. Moving west at seven. It is Tropical Storm and its weakening rapidly. The next julio is category three but that is expected to track to the north. Everything is showing signs its going to the north. We will give our forecast models credit on iselle. It was spot on with that but maintained itself. It did exactly what the forecast mad ills said. For us a lot of low clouds are in place. 50s and 60s. A little cooler on some of the lows that is because we have a much stronger delta breeze. That definitely holds. That is a sure sign it will be cooler. Low clouds and fog made a little bit of a cool pattern by the coast. We will see mainly 80s inland. 70s closer and 60s by the water. Here is brian. We have a new collision in Solano County on eastbound 80. There was a car that somehow spun out and now on its side in the Center Divide. We will keep an eye on that. Taking a look at the toll plaza. 810 minutes get you across the span. D