Congress is the legislative branch, not in charge of the armed forces or foreign policy, which is the purview of the executive branch. They can certainly cut the budget, as they hold the purse strings, but they are not empowered to assault the arrangements as written down in the Constitution.
Regards, Ivan
46 posted on 02/23/2007 6:54:13 AM PST by MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)