Tag: Sen Mike Lee

Post-9/11 AUMF Used to Justify Military Action in 22 Countries: Report

December 16, 2021
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When a trio of lawmakers introduced legislation in July that would curb presidential war-making powers, they said reforms are required because the executive branch has run amok with the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF)—passed in response to the 9/11 terror attacks. “Today we have combat troops in over a half dozen countries…

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Republican Senator Encourages Democrat Joe Manchin to Switch Political Party

October 25, 2021
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Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee encouraged self-proclaimed centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to switch parties and not affiliate himself with Democrats that do not share his legislative values. Lee made the comments on Fox News on Sunday, saying that Manchin should switch parties and leave the Democrats, whose policies are causing inflation and a rise…

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GOP Senators Object to Unrelated Items in Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure Package

April 9, 2021
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Republican senators say they fully support fixing infrastructure, but oppose President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure package because includes unrelated items that unnecessarily increase the national debt. “It’s mostly not spending money on infrastructure and so it seems that they have established no upper bound limit on how much we spend, no questions have been…

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