While broadly supportive, members of Congress are dubious about granting open-ended authority for the use of force in a strange new kind of war.
UBI is like granting open-ended unemployment benefits with no requirement to look for work, or financing an indefinite 'gap year' to anyone who wants it.
An inconclusive or open-ended ending?
KBR (Halliburton subsidiary) is granted an open-ended contract for Army troops supply and Navy construction, wherever U.S. troops go, for the next 10 years (so far, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Yemen, Iraq).
On its face, the Rule grants no such open-ended authority.
Congress, despite some misgivings from lawmakers over granting President Bush open-ended authority, moved to give the administration $40 billion to wage its antiterror initiative.
This might cast light on Archbishop John Vlazny's surprise at the outrage generated by his granting Perez an open-ended loan to pay for the best defense attorney Catholic funds can buy rather than letting a public defender represent Perez.
17 The statute does not contain, and has never before been interpreted as containing, the open-ended grant of authority to federal courts that today's decision purports to uncover.
German diplomats, in particular, welcomed the changes, which included increasing the stature of a proposed United Nations representative in Iraq and abandoning the open-ended grant of authority in favor of a requirement that the United States and Britain cede power when "an internationally recognized, representative government is established".
In a joint letter to Congress, about two dozen groups — including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights — contended that the proposal amounted to an open-ended grant of authority to the executive branch, legitimizing an unending war from Yemen to Somalia and beyond.
