Posted by
cehwiedel on Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:45:52 AM
I am disappointed but not surprised to report that Senator Dianne Feinstein voted in favor of sending the non-binding resolution opposing the increase in troop level to the Senate floor:
The resolution is expected to have a vote on the Senate floor by the
end of the month. Senator Dianne Feinstein tells ABC7 she's working on
her own legislation to rescind the President's authority to conduct the
war.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D): "I think the time has come to have the authorization for use of military force to expire."
Senator Feinstein says Congress gave the President permission to
go to war and if her legislation passes, that permission will end.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D): "That way we can take a very strong
policy stance and go online essentially saying you're authority to
carry out this augmentation ends on September 30th of this year."
Feinstein is still working on the legislation. She hasn't
introduced it yet. But she is hoping it will enable the
Democratically-controlled Congress to reign in the President without
going down the much more politically problematic path of trying to
limit funding for the war.
This does nothing by embolden our enemies.
[You are invited to visit www.cehwiedel.com, where I write on many things other than the members of the California delegation to the United States Senate.]