Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you to all of our witnesses. Thank you for your extraordinary gestures to come back to this committee over and over again both in public and private to work on this most important question that the Foreign Relations committee and Congress Takes up, the question of when to commit u. S. Personnel into war. I remain as frustrated as many of my colleagues over this question over definitions. Every different member of the administration that we talk to seems to have a slightly different interpretation of what these words mean and i cant blame them. As secretary carter said, there is no historical operational definition of these words. I think the lack of consistency has hampered our efforts to get on the same page together. If we resort to just an understanding that these words mean something less than what happened in iraq and afghanistan, that really is no limitation at all. I am barely a lawyer. I practiced for four years, but i remember the concept of stat
Against isil. And forth and finally, the proposed aumf expires in four years. I understand the reason for the proposed sunset provision. It derives from the important principle stemming from the constitution that makes the grave matter of enacting an authorization for the use of military force a shared responsibility of the president and congress. The president s proposed authorization affords the American People the chance to assess our progress in three years time, and provides next president and the next congress the opportunity to reauthorize it, if they find it necessary. To me, this is a sensible and principal provision, even though i cannot assure that the counter isil campaign will be completed in three years. Now, in addition to providing the authority and flexibility to wage a successful campaign, i said i had another key consideration. Sending the right signals to the troops. It will demonstrate to our personnel that their government stands behind them. As secretary kerry ex
People can try to restrain executive spent you suggest then if that should happen why would an executive with such disrespect for the constitution today on an amended constitution from the Constitutional Convention . That is an excellent question. I would like to turn to mr. Turley. Hes had a chance to reflect upon the earlier statement of the situation that we are in, and where this goes. We need to look into the future and ask unanimous consent for the additional minute to ask each of the witnesses to tell us what does america look like in the next 25 years if we have executive upon executive builds upon this continual stretching or disregard of the constitutional restraint and a disrespect for article i . Start with mr. Turley and speeding you may answer the question as quickly as you can. I really have great trepidation of where were heading because we are creating a new system here, something that is not designed. We have this rising Fourth Branch and a system that is tripartite.
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