Feingold up tomorrow: "Exercising Congress's Constitutional Power to End a War."

I don't know if CSPAN will be airing any of this; I hope so.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20070129/cm_huffpost/039912

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Tomorrow, I will be chairing a full Judiciary Committee hearing entitled "Exercising Congress's Constitutional Power to End a War." This hearing will help remind my colleagues in the Senate and the American public that Congress is not powerless - even when it acts that way. We have the power to stop the policies of a President that continue to hurt our national security. Soon after tomorrow's hearing, I will introduce legislation to do just that.

I want everyone to be clear on exactly what my proposal will do. The first and most important thing to know is that my plan does not cut funding for the troops. Our troops will continue to receive the salaries, equipment, training and protection they need. What I am proposing is ending funds for the continued deployment of U.S. forces in Iraq six months after the enactment of the bill. This will require the President to safely redeploy troops from Iraq by that date. My bill does provide exceptions to allow for specific types of military missions within Iraq past the six-month deadline, such as targeted counter-terrorism efforts, the protection of American personnel and infrastructure, and a limited number of troops needed to help train Iraqi security forces. But these will be limited forces used for specific missions.

Suggestions that our troops will be left in the lurch couldn't be further from the truth. My proposal would bring the troops out of harm's way.

Congress has used this power several times before, most recently in Somalia and in Bosnia in the 1990s. Nevertheless, I'm sure the White House and others will resort to their usual intimidation tactics to try to paint this proposal as not supporting the troops. I'd like to hear from the President exactly how sending 21,500 more U.S. troops into a civil war supports them. We must not let this administration continue to intimidate like it did in the lead-up to war.

In August 2005, I became the first Senator to propose a timetable for the redeployment of our troops from Iraq. A timetable was considered taboo in Congress then, but it's clearly the position supported by the majority of this country. Now it is time to break another taboo - that Congress can't use its constitutional power to end funding for the war and bring our troops home safely. The catastrophe in Iraq is not the fault of our brave men and women in uniform, but rather the failed policies of this administration. Our troops and our national security should no longer be the ones to suffer for this Administration's terrible mistake.

By this time tomorrow night, so much will have happened. And, it's about time. MKJ

setting a date to bring them home.

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So much is happening so fast, it's hard to keep up with all the lies and distortions of this administration! I am continually horrified by this president, but I just watched the nightly news, and the spin doctors are already talking about a possible war with Iran, which Pat Buchanan actually said tonight we should pursue!! What a vile blood sucker he is!
Go Russ Go!!! Stop the madness!!!

Liberals have been predicting this for a few years now. Bush must be stopped from this insanity.

to see if there is a webcast.

Biden's committee last week and Biden shot him down pretty snottily (is that a word?). Feingold is TRYING to bring this into the national dialog at the same time Kucinich is trying to bring impeachment into the national dialog. Both are sick to death of the Democratic "leadership" not doing their job.

think of it first? I hate when Dems work against each other.