Administration officials offered no theory for why continuing the air war in Libya in the absence of Congressional authorization and beyond the deadline would be lawful.
Hence her opposition to the just-passed $1.1 trillion federal budget authorization that extended the deadline for Wall Street institutions to divest themselves of the riskiest derivatives.
Mr. Obama's failure to seek Congressional authorization after the 60-day deadline puts him in the position of having broken the law.
Administration officials could have forced Congress to act by declaring that it could not rely indefinitely on the Afghanistan war authorization and giving lawmakers a deadline to pass a new law.
Mr. Schiff plans to introduce an amendment to the 2014 military budget bill that would repeal the force authorization as of Dec. 31, 2014, the deadline set by President Obama for the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan.
The Constitution says Congress has the power to declare war, and the 1973 War Powers Resolution requires the president to obtain congressional authorization within 60 days of the start of military operations, a deadline that passed last month.
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We suggest that the House and Senate adopt new "Rules for Limited War" that would create a presumption that any authorization of military force will expire after two years, unless Congress specifies a different deadline.
SAG-AFTRA said its national board of directors agreed on Sunday to send a strike authorization referendum to members unless a satisfactory agreement is reached by Friday's contract deadline.
The appropriate deadline for Security Council action to lift sanctions is early June, when the current authorization expires for the oil-for-food program for Iraq.
The national spotlight on Amash has grown particularly intense as two deadlines approach: the Michigan GOP primary on Aug. 5, and the legal authorization for the government's Export-Import Bank on Sept. 30.
