War Powers Proposal Gives the President Even More Authority

By Don Wolfensberger
Roll Call Contributing Writer

July 14, 2008

A privately organized Commission on War Powers recommended last week that the 1973 War Powers Resolution be repealed and replaced by a Congressional Joint Committee on Consultation and new procedures to approve or disapprove a “significant armed conflict.”

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