The Authorization for Use of Military Force is a joint resolution by Congress that gives the U.S. president the authority to leverage military force in a conflict. Such authorizations carry instructions regarding which region, what nation or even specific ...

Re: Congress Must Insist that President Bush's Language for an Iraq Resolution be Made Clear for Debate on Iraq to Be Meaningful On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union and its approximately 300,000 members, we write to urge you to insist that a ...

When President Donald Trump recently launched missile strikes against Iran, the negative response from Democrats had little to do with the merits of the attack itself. Instead, many Democrats criticized the president for not getting authorization from ...

The US Senate is scheduled to hold a key procedural vote Thursday on a resolution blocking further military action against Venezuela, setting up the first test of congressional backing for President Donald Trump’s intervention in the South American nation.