Require congressional authorization for military hostilities

Scott supports using War Powers resolutions to require the removal of U.S. forces from hostilities that Congress has not authorized. He has backed resolutions concerning Iran and Venezuela, and described Congress’s constitutional war powers as a check on unilateral presidential military action.

Context: The cited votes concern specific conflicts and resolutions; the Lebanon statements reflect support for removal from hostilities only until Congress authorizes them, and opposition to a resolution Scott considered overly broad.

In their own words

Congress to reassert its Article I constitutional war powers

The source

Robert C. "Bobby" Scott: Defense & National Security

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