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Corker to hold hearing on president's nuclear weapons authority
The Hill ^

Posted on 11/08/2017 4:52:48 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Corker to hold hearing on president's nuclear weapons authority

By Brandon Carter - 11/08/17 07:41 PM EST

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) announced Wednesday the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would hold a hearing next week on “the executive’s authority to use nuclear weapons.”

“A number of members both on and off our committee have raised questions about the authorities of the legislative and executive branches with respect to war making, the use of nuclear weapons, and conducting foreign policy overall,” Corker said in a statement announcing the Nov. 14 hearing.

“This continues a series of hearings to examine these issues and will be the first time since 1976 that this committee or our House counterparts have looked specifically at the authority and process for using U.S. nuclear weapons,” he continued. “This discussion is long overdue, and we look forward to examining this critical issue.”

A debate over nuclear authority has reignited among lawmakers after President Trump warned in August that North Korea could face "fire and fury like the world has never seen" if it continues to advance its nuclear program.

A number of rank-and-file Democrats and Republicans have come forward saying Congress must authorize the use of nuclear weapons and a declaration of war should Trump want to strike North Korea.

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), who sits on the Armed Services Committee, said “preemptive war” on the Korean Peninsula “would require the authorization of Congress.”

Both Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced bills this year that would bar Trump from launching a preemptive nuclear attack before Congress approves a declaration of war. Those bills have stalled in the Republican-controlled House and Senate.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has also called on Congress to bar the president from using nuclear weapons....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corker; dod; korea; noko; nuclear; trump
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I always like hearings because Politicians say the darnedest things...........

Hey Bob and et al. Go read the constitution.

1 posted on 11/08/2017 4:52:48 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Corker?

I thought he was dead?


2 posted on 11/08/2017 4:57:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: Sub-Driver

Liddle Bobby is nervous

That’s so cute

Does he want us to wait until Rocket Man lobs one onto San Francisco (not that that would be a big loss, but...)?

Congress has the war making power, but the war powers act and the existing Constitution gives the President the authority to act when necessary

Sneak attacks don’t wait for drawn out deliberations


3 posted on 11/08/2017 4:57:57 PM PST by Regulator
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To: Sub-Driver

Liddle Bob can ESAD!


4 posted on 11/08/2017 4:58:26 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: Sub-Driver

MF’s have no deliverables.

Just collect a check and a GIANT PENSION FOR LIFE after getting reelected twice.

Trump needs to do us all a favor and drop a MOAB on Capital Hill during a full session, the CORRUPT THIEVING CONGRESS is dysfunctional, unreformable, and a direct enemy of the PRODUCTIVE CLASS.


5 posted on 11/08/2017 4:59:23 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Sub-Driver

Boy, does this piss me off.

OTOH, it means Trump is on target. Effing politicians just engaging in a useless circle jerk.


6 posted on 11/08/2017 4:59:24 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: Sub-Driver

So North Korea nukes Hawaii. What do these asshats propose. Spitballs?


7 posted on 11/08/2017 4:59:44 PM PST by fhayek
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“I thought he was dead?”

Brain-wise, yes. Physically, no.


8 posted on 11/08/2017 5:01:39 PM PST by beergarden
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To: Sub-Driver

President Trump - taking flack abroad and at home; That’s my guy!

Corker? You are less than worthless. Buh-Bye!


9 posted on 11/08/2017 5:01:44 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Bitter little man


10 posted on 11/08/2017 5:01:55 PM PST by drypowder
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To: fhayek

Send more money to North Korea!! What’s another couple of trillion dollars here or there?

Bye Hawaii! - that would be their answer.

Oh along with candlelight vigils, teddy bears and hashtags.


11 posted on 11/08/2017 5:01:59 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has also called on Congress to bar the president from using nuclear weapons

Who elected congress President? Same for Corker, who made him of the executive branch? Last I looked he was busy abdicating the Federal Senate's responsibility for treaty making.

12 posted on 11/08/2017 5:02:16 PM PST by Kudsman ( Anyone to the Right of Stalin is a Far Right Wing candidate to the Far Left Wing Media.)
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To: Sub-Driver

If, God forbid, tensions ratchet up, and the Senate’s grandstanding results in the Norms nuking US territory, I think it would be justified for the President to hang them for treason.


13 posted on 11/08/2017 5:03:14 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has also called “on Congress to bar the president from using nuclear weapons....”

But he can DRONE all the children and kittens and goats he wants to, Nance, as did your Savior 0bama?

F.U. Seriously. Just. F. U.


14 posted on 11/08/2017 5:03:43 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Remind me again, who is Commander In Chief of our nations military?


15 posted on 11/08/2017 5:03:59 PM PST by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey Corkhead. Trump is far from being a war monger. He is not the type to ever use nukes for the hell of it.

Now you, and all your Alzheimer cohorts, I could not say the same.


16 posted on 11/08/2017 5:04:04 PM PST by dforest
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To: Sub-Driver
Utterly useless waste of time, when they should be pushing through a Tax Cut and Repealing the Obamacare TAX Mandate.




17 posted on 11/08/2017 5:04:53 PM PST by Cheerio (#44, The unknown President)
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To: SaveFerris

You know no committee would sanction nuclear retaliation.


18 posted on 11/08/2017 5:05:03 PM PST by fhayek
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To: Sub-Driver

Isn’t there some way to get Corker to take his football and go home today?


19 posted on 11/08/2017 5:05:22 PM PST by stevem
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To: grey_whiskers

Nork s not Norms.
D@mn autocorrect which overrules the user’s correction of its own errors...


20 posted on 11/08/2017 5:05:32 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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