"We can be sure that if we don't authorize this action, Assad will see this as a green light". Then she says the US is leery of a "stalling exercise". We don't want this to be another stalling exercise, and we have serious skepticism about the Assad regime [willingness] to get rid of their chemical weapons.
"Unfortunately, I am skeptical that Congress will find the will to overcome our internal divisions, both between parties and internal to them, to authorize this action," Rep. Adam Smith (Wash)., the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said during Thursday's hearing.
I'm sure there are many good people in the CNN newsroom equally appalled by this decision and wondering who above them authorized this course of action.
Legal scholars say the United Nations resolution calling for an embargo could reasonably be interpreted as authorizing this naval action.
The Confederate government had authorized the actions of the Jefferson Davis and a handful of other privateers during the first weeks of the war.
Officials with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, while claiming they had not authorized the actions in Seattle and Tacoma, said the ports would reopen on Friday.
On Jan . 26 last Thursday, Mr. Trump formally signed the memo authorizing the action, Mr. Spicer said.
Held : Section 232(b) authorizes the action taken by the President.
The Newspaper Guild of New York, which represents the employees, did not authorize the action, said the union's president, Barry F. Lipton.
While he did not directly ask for a resolution authorizing the action or concede that it was necessary, he expressed support for the idea of a legislative endorsement.
In which case, a court can give a secret order authorizing the action, whatever it may be.
