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 executives 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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The PLAN was to accuse President Trump of Russian collusion.
Trump was going to fire anybody investigating Russia, then impeachment, then back to business as usual.
But Russia has turned into Uranium ONE and the RATS are very worried that it could grow from Hillary's fault all the way to Hussein Obama's support for their Russian treason.
The fact that Hussein's government did NOT act on Russian bribes to Hillary indicts MANY of the big names in the RAT party, especially Hussein himself.
This is going to end well but not for the RAT Party. Even Donna Brazile is writing CYA BS in an attempt to blame Hillary and protect Hussein. RATS and many REPUBS are going to go down as the swamp is drained. This is going to end as PLANNED by President Trump.
President Trump was elected to show everyone who the real traitors to the Constitution were in Washington. Corker and Pelozi have been on the list for sometime now.
This is great Bob, telegraph to all other countries and enemies that the president’s war fighting authority is in doubt. This is nothing but a vendetta.
This SOB should be shut right down but that’s too much to expect from Bitch McConnell.
The GOP is an absolute joke.
[Corker is publicly working to damage Trump.]
This is a vendetta undermine Trump’s Asia trip.
No...he do the only proper thing.
No...he do the only proper thing.
The man who brought us the Iran deal who is a Never Trumper and a McShamey lackey?
Surely you forgot the sarcasm tag
Notice the little prick Corker along with Flake and dead man walking McCain said nothing during the Obama years. Now they jump on the democrat side. If we had any leadership in the senate they would strip these clown of all committees and the RNC should call for the states to have a recall election
if he does and hits CA are WA no loss to the country just thinning the liberal herd
Words mean something:
The Korean War did NOT end with capitulation by the North Koreans & Chinese troops. IT ended with a TRUCE !!!
There have been enough violations of that TRUCE by N Korea to go after them militarily.
I do not believe for one little second that Trump needs any authorization from Congress.
He is not declaring war-—he will be declaring that N Korea is in violation of the terms of the TRUCE....period.
Fo so many in Congress who are supposed to be sooooo smart-—they certainly are stupid.
I seem to remember that “Shock & Awe” in 2003 provided lots of “Fire & Fury” & that NONE of that was NUCLEAR.
Seems Corker & others are making a large leap to get to heir conclusion.
Maybe such a large leap of imagination was also responsible for Corker filing over 10 years worth of fraudulent income tax returns with the IRS-—failing to list ALL of his income.
Corker hates Trump, has decided not to run for election (because he knows he couldn’t win, just like Flake in Arizona)
Corker got caught filing fraudulent income tax returns for the past 10 +++ years. That kind of info would be devastating in another election cycle.
Even the person filing & paying the smallest income taxes in the USA cannot abide a tax cheat-—more so when it is a person in power or in Congress.
Anyone who ran against him would make their entire campaign about how Corker cheated on his taxes. No American citizen has to be a Rhodes Scholar to understand how low that is.
“This is going to end as PLANNED by President Trump.”
I hope you’re right.
Somebody primary this A%%wipe.
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