A House Democrat warned Friday that the U.S. president is becoming an “absolute monarch” on matters related to the authority to start a war.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) said Congress must act to limit funding for military operations in Libya in order to correct that trend.
“We have been sliding for 70 years to a situation where Congress has nothing to do with the decision about whether to go to war or not, and the president is becoming an absolute monarch,” Nadler said on the floor.
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