Posted on 01/10/2016 1:06:16 PM PST by Kaslin
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate won't take up President Barack Obama's request for new war powers to fight the Islamic State group, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday, to avoid tying the hands of the next president.
The Obama administration last February proposed a three-year authorization that would take the fight beyond national borders and expand it to any "closely related successor entity" to IS. The plan did not authorize large-scale ground operations. It has languished in Congress as Republicans and Democrats have failed to coalesce around a new authorization.
McConnell's resistance to a fresh authorization for the use of military force puts him at odds with House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who said this past week that he had asked House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., to conduct "listening sessions" with lawmakers on a new plan.
Obama has relied on congressional authorizations given to President George W. Bush for the fight against al-Qaida after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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Senator Mumblebee.. can you give us an update on ongoing Senate investigations into corrupt agencies? Oh wait, there are none? well, unless ya count Benghazi,,
We wouldn’t want to tie a future President’s hands?
That dog and pony show is an investigation? ROTFLMAO
Ditch has NO intention of pushing for shorter nap times.
We know, in the House, all you need is a “motion to vacate the chair” to get rid of the “leader”. What is the process in the Senate ... same, different?
As you said to begin with, my fellow Norm, there re none.
Senate is a straightforward party caucus vote.
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