“Mr. Obama also issued a strong and timely challenge to Congress to approve a new legal authorization for the military campaign that was launched in August 2014. It’s time, he said, ‘for Congress to demonstrate that the American people are united and committed in this fight.’
The failure of Congress to vote on a new legal framework for the war against the Islamic State has long been a problem, but especially now with the administration deploying elite troops to carry out raids in Syria and Iraq. It has become indefensible in recent days with the British and German parliaments debating and voting to authorize their militaries to join the air campaign against the Islamic State.
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Mr. Obama once again asked Congress to take on common-sense reforms to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, including barring people on the government’s no-fly list from acquiring weapons.”
Snippets from the Right