Congress and the Power of War and Peace
POLICY FORUMThursday, May 17, 2001
4:00 p.m.
Featuring Gene Healy, Author of Cato Institute Study "Arrogance of Power Reborn: The Imperial Presidency and Foreign Policy in the Clinton Years"; Louis Fisher, Author, Congressional Abdication on War & Spending; John Norton Moore, University of Virginia School of Law.
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Article I of the United States Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to declare war. The Cold War and the rise of the imperial presidency have worked against congressional control of war. As William Jefferson Clinton came to power in January 1993, there was some reason to hope that the imperial presidency would be scaled back. But in Haiti, Iraq, Sudan, and Bosnia, the Clinton administration displayed its contempt for the constitutional process and asserted a unilateral power to wage war without congressional approval. Will Congress reclaim its constitutional authority under the new Bush administration? Please join us as three experts debate the new administration's likely path on making war and peace.