Sen. Tim Kaine
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Kaine, who expressed frustration that Congress had not received prior notice President Biden
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‘I just strongly believe – and this goes back to the drafting of the Constitution and the earliest understanding of it – is that if a president defends against a continuous attack or imminent attack, the president does have unilateral power and that is good. “But the idea of offending groups is traditionally where you have to go to Congress,” he said.
The senator said he was “not notified at all” about the Syria strike and also that “not many of the people” in Congress needed to be consulted.
Kaine was also the sponsor of a joint resolution to remove US forces from hostilities against Iranian forces not authorized by Congress, which President Trump
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Biden last week ordered airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias in Syria that hit “multiple facilities” and resulted in nearly two dozen deaths, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Pentagon described the attack as “proportionate” and “defensive” after US troops in Iraq came under a rocket attack, killing a civilian contractor.
“This is the beginning of an administration, and this is an administration, because President Biden was the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, which has jurisdiction over issues of the armed forces, he must understand more than most, more than virtually anyone. That the Article I branch should play a role here, so I will insist on that, ‘Kaine said, referring to the legislative branch.
Kaine said he would likely present a dual resolution with Republican colleagues on Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday that would revoke the two Iraqi authorizations, Gulf War I and then Iraq ’02. ‘
“Congress does not repeal these things. “We pass them by and they just float out there to be used – it can be used in vicious ways to justify actions long after the original crisis is over,” he said.
He said the first step was to revoke “unnecessary” authorization for the use of military force, such as the two resolutions passed by Congress against Iraq, and then work to revoke the authorization for the use of military force in 2001 against ‘to update and reform those nations, organizations. or persons ”who planned, approved or assisted the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
The 2001 authorization was used to send US troops to Afghanistan in October of that year and the military conflict against Al Qaeda and the Taliban spread to other countries such as Pakistan, Syria, Somalia, Libya and Yemen.
Kaine says ‘step three’ is to update the 1974 War Powers Act.
‘This example shows that the War Powers Act of 1974 is simply not enough to require consultation, so I have a bill to rewrite the War Powers Act, which is a long-term reform that I think we will also introduce in the first of the year with Republican colleagues, ”he said.
Kaine said he expects to speak to Biden administration officials Tuesday afternoon about last week’s strike.
“I think I’m going to talk to them later today,” he said.
Kaine said he received the same letter that all his colleagues received two days later to inform them of the strike.
‘I was like everyone else in the country, and I learned it on the news. I am a member of the Committee on Armed Services and Foreign Relations[s]. “I do not think I should learn about it,” he said.
“We’ll probably have some kind of information session with the White House on this,” he said.