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Joe biden. 36 years in the senate, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, and it takes an extremely self confident president to say, i want to inhabit any square centimeter of the article two powers, but im not threatened by a congress inhabiting every square centimeter of the article one powers. most presidents feel threatened when congress starts to exert some interest in war power issues. joe biden doesnt feel threatened, he understands congress has to be as vigorous in protectiv...

I mean, the idea that congress, even the republican-controlled side of the congress in the senate, that they might get up on their hind legs on issues like that and express themselves and take back some of their power on an issue like that, that would be the huge thing. war power issues and authorizing the use of military force have accrued increasingly to the presidency for a couple of generations now. for every president since vietnam, increasingly and inexorably. it has been this one-way swin...

Republicans in the senate appear willing to break with the president from time to time. the number of republican senators who crossed over and voted with democrats to try to stop the trump administration from lifting russian sanctions on oleg deripaska, that number of republican crossovers was not sufficient to stop administration. they needed a couple of more votes but it did hit double digits. and in the house it was well over 100 republicans who joined with the democrats to try to stop the tr...

Anywhere? will any of this pressure from congress change anything? the attention that they can bring to stuff through hearings, will it change anything? will it make new policy? i know theyll be able to pass bills in the house. does that mean theyll be able to pass new laws? theres the senate. theres the white house. i mean, i dont know, but the prospect of what they are doing already all of a sudden makes congress way more relevant than it has been in a long time. democrats and some observers w...

Thought that was worth fighting for. >> my family is immigrants. my friends are immigrants. this community is made up of immigrants and many of those are undocumented or daca recipients or are dreamers. and they dont have the right to vote or have any other rights that citizens like myself have. and as instilled by my parents, its very important that people who have the opportunity to vote exercise that right to vote and do anything possible to make it easier or to make their voice heard about i...

Weapons to the rebels. that was specifically exempted in this resolution. they refer back to the arms em bar go and exempt rebels from that. as far as air attacks in coordination with the rebels, i think that would be beyond what the resolution certainly intended. >> an issue emerging here in domestic politics, the domestic debate there are significant numbers of members of congress opposed to the intervention. they are saying there is noel legal foundation for the president to have ordered our ...