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[workinclasszero]

1. How in the hell was that power ever given to one person anyway?

Thank you Barbara Lee!

[htuttle]

2. I'm not sure this is true

Finding some mention of June's votes on that, and I'm not seeing that she won the votes in Congress:
https://lee.house.gov/news/articles/how-barbara-lee-became-an-army-of-one

Sounds like Ryan pulled her amendment at the last minute.

[WillowTree]

7. Whether it's true or not, it still doesn't mean what the OP states.

Under the War Powers Act of 1973 the president can pursue military action for up to 90 days without permission from Congress.

OP needs to do some homework.

[Downtown Hound]

3. "California Congresswoman BARBARA LEE, just stripped Donald Trump of his personal military power."

She took away his Xbox?

[Fred Sanders]

8. Amendment stripped and watered down to Kool-Aid...the OP is wrong....

"There are signs Congress might be preparing to reassert itself.

When he stripped Lee’s amendment, Ryan replaced it with a provision by Cole designed to get the ball rolling on a new AUMF. The measure orders the Trump administration to submit, within 30 days of its passage, a strategy to defeat Al Qaeda, the Taliban and the Islamic State, along with an analysis of the current legal framework for doing so. The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing last week on the 2001 AUMF. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding similar hearings, and two senators—Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.)—are pushing a bipartisan measure that would repeal existing war resolutions while authorizing force specifically against ISIS, Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Their proposal has a five-year sunset date."

[progressoid]

4. So many Democrats lost their spine post 9-11

[former9thward]

5. Not true.

Which is why it is not linked to anything credible.

[Achilleaze]

6. So, the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief is a loser. Again.

Better him than America.

[NCTraveler]

9. Do you have a link to the legislation?

I don't see where she is touting it.

https://lee.house.gov/news/press-releases

There is nothing to go off of in your op.

[JohnnyRingo]

14. 45% of Americans get their news from Facebook.

That's seldom a reliable source, regardless one's political bent..

[2naSalit]

10. K&R

One step in a positive direction.

[leftynyc]

11. Consider deleting this

Unless you can come up with a real link.

[braddy]

12. Actually it has been common for the President to act unilaterally, at least since Jefferson.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/09/actually-u-s-presidents-have-been-going-to-war-without-congress-since-the-beginning/

[Kurt V.]

13. true or not,

Here's to Barbara Lee just because