Two kinds of War Powers Legislation awaited final action in the Senate and the House in 1973. One would establish strict limits on the President's power to take the country into war without specific authorization by Congress, in pursuance of the power to declare war given to the Congress by the ... Vietnam." It would also, they agreed, apply to Cambodia and Laos once cease-fire agreements had come into force in those countries. Javits rose to say that he accepted this interpretation and that it would make unnecessary such other resolutions as Church-Case, "which might distract us from the co...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Two kinds of War Powers Legislation awaited final action in the Senate and the House in 1973. One would establish strict limits on the President's power to take the country into war without specific authorization by Congress, in pursuance of the power to declare war given to the Congress by the ... Vietnam." It would also, they agreed, apply to Cambodia and Laos once cease-fire agreements had come into force in those countries. Javits rose to say that he accepted this interpretation and that it would make unnecessary such other resolutions as Church-Case, "which might distract us from the co...

• Word Count: 2569
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate