House bill pushes war powers for president to fight ISIS, al Qaeda
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times - Tuesday, May 22, 2018
A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday unveiled a bill that would give the president explicit authority to fight al Qaeda and the Islamic State — but the measure would expire after five years and would force Congress to routinely revisit U.S. military strategy.
The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) bill, offered as an amendment to the broader National Defense Authorization Act, is in some ways similar to a Senate version released earlier this year. Both would update the 2001 and 2002 measures that presidents of both parties have relied on to conduct counterterrorism efforts around the world, and each would give explicit power to the commander in chief to go after the Islamic State in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere.
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