I'm very proud to announce that The final conference between the House and the Senate on this year's defense bill includes a provision to repeal the Iraq war authorizations from 1991 and 2002. Congress sometimes starts wars and then just leaves the authorizations on the books forever. We call them zombie authorizations, and they're dangerous because a president who wants to bypass Congress … (00:00–00:14)
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