Session #104 · 1995–97

Speech #1040166142

The operative words are in Section 2. that "the President may only fulfill his commitment to deploy United States Armed Forces . . . for approximately one year to implement the general Framework Agreement and Military Annex. pursuant to this Resolution. subject to the conditions in subsection (b)." That language fulfills the Framers intent. from a constitutional perspective. for the Congress to authorize the President to undertake war making powers that he would not otherwise have. The emphasis of the authority given here today is its limitation in scope and time. If. in the future. the missions engaged in by our forces go creeping into nationbuilding. to doing the job of civil authorities for reconstruction or refugee movements. then the President would have exceeded his authority. I. for one. would certainly be prepared to pull the plug on the operationas I did in the case of Somaliaand cut off the lifeblood of its appropriated funds. if that kind of backsliding were to occur. The same is true if we went beyond "approximately one year". language that I insisted be included in this resolution.
Keywords matched
refugee

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROBERT BYRD
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
WV
Gender
M
Date
1995-12-13
Speech ID
1040166142
Paragraph
#0
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