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- resta6, on 01/12/2009, -6/+29you want to get things done? Elect Ron Paul
you want to be told what you want to hear, and then get ignored once the person is in office? Elect someone else - rg123, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16copy of bill
Sunset of Public Law 107-243 Act of 2007 (Introduced in House)
HR 2605 IH
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2605
To establish a sunset for the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243).
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 7, 2007
Mr. PAUL (for himself, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. JONES of North Carolina, Mr. DELAHUNT, Mr. GILCHREST, Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts, Mr. MEEHAN, Mr. MICHAUD, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. ELLISON, and Mrs. BOYDA of Kansas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
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A BILL
To establish a sunset for the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243).
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Sunset of Public Law 107-243 Act of 2007'.
SEC. 2. SUNSET OF PUBLIC LAW 107-243.
The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
`SEC. 5. SUNSET.
`This joint resolution shall cease to be effective beginning 180 days after the date of the enactment of the Sunset of Public Law 107-243 Act of 2007.'.
SEC. 3. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.
Nothing in the amendment made by section 2 of this Act shall be construed to prevent or prohibit Congress in the 180-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act from--
(1) reauthorizing Public Law 107-243, with or without amendment, as appropriate; and
(2) passing a new authorization for the use of military force against Iraq or a declaration of war against Iraq, as appropriate. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16It's time to get America back on track. Stop the Nazi style "pre-emptive" strikes and get our Country back to peace. Start by bringing the boys home. NOW!
- foraneagle3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13H. R. 2605
To establish a sunset for the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.2605:
Cosponsors:
Rep. Neil Abercrombie [D-HI]
Rep. Thomas Allen [D-ME]
Rep. Timothy Bishop [D-NY]
Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]
Rep. Nancy Boyda [D-KS]
Rep. Michael Capuano [D-MA]
Rep. William Delahunt [D-MA]
Rep. John Duncan [R-TN]
Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]
Del. Eni Faleomavaega [D-AS]
Rep. Bob Filner [D-CA]
Rep. Wayne Gilchrest [R-MD]
Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]
Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]
Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]
Rep. Martin Meehan [D-MA]
Rep. Michael Michaud [D-ME]
Rep. Richard Neal [D-MA]
Rep. Peter Welch [D-VT]
"At least one other presidential contender agrees. Democratic liberal Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio has signed on as a cosponsor, too." - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10The so called PATRIOT ACT must be repealed as well.
We need a constitutional amendment that precludes these civil rights abuses under ANY circumstance. - fruitjacket, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9This is a great bill! End the Wars!!
- smacksaw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8What a shame our country has become when people using common sense are considered to be strange bedfellows. I'd like an America with bi-partisan support for things that work, and Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich couldn't be farther apart politically, yet are good friends and have an excellent working relationship.
I think it's important for Democrats to remember that Ron Paul isn't their enemy. If we all were free because of his libertarian ideals, what would stop leftists/socialists from choosing those methods in their states or counties? Not Ron Paul. He wants out of your state business and isn't going to make more laws, but less of them. - fruitjacket, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Sign the petition to our US Congress to pass this bill.
http://www.petitiononline.com/hr2605/petition.html - jayma777, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9This coming from the crowd with such stunningly accurate predictions as:
1) Osama will be found and brought to justice
2) They definitely have Weapons of Mass Destruction
3) We will be greeted as liberators
4) No one could predict Katrina would flood New Orleans
5) Any one leaking Covert CIA identities in this administration will be fired
You must now turn in your Magic 8-Ball. You're obviously too stupid to use it.
And please don't pretend to care about the Iraqi people. If you actually did, you would have been at the front of the line protesting the start of the war. - polyGone, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I switched to Democrat, so I could vote them in. I did so, just because of the war. Then, they got in and did nothing. Both the left and the right are just two sides to the same political organism. Needless to say, I will not be voting in that manner ever again. I will write Ron Paul in, if I have to.
- foraneagle3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6it's on fox news
- sodade, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7OMFG! We are NOT a stabilizing force! All we have done and are doing is causing a massive destabilization of the whole ***** region. The US needs to get the ***** out of the whole middle east. There are plenty of other oil hungry nations that will eagerly take our place when we bail.
- danconia, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Sunset: the sun's going down on you bitch Bush. Nighty night.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5How dare you say it's about morality!
We can claim NO moral high ground by going to a war based on lies!
And please tell everyone how there are now McDonald's and Wendy's in Vietnam. Vietnam is a poor example. It shows you really don't know squat about history. - LeeSoong, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Every State Governor should be openly supporting Ron Paul.
The 8 years of the Bush Administration, coming hot off the heels of 8 years of the Clinton Administration,
has burdened the States with countless unfunded federal mandates. This means the Federal government keeps making up new rules, new laws, new programs, and new requirements that the States are FORCED to follow - or lose their 'federal funding' (i.e. - your tax dollars back to you). States are burdened with absorbing the costs of these programs with little or no help from the Federal Government. This is WRONG.
Do you really need some appointed official in Washington D.C. Telling you what to do?
It is a Civil War again, forcing states to follow expensive unconstitutional whims of bureaucrats.
Ron Paul can Restore the Republic. If it is NOT spelled out in the constitution for the federal government, those decisions, powers and choices fall back to the States. For SOOoooo many things: 'It's None Of The Federal Government's Business'.
RON PAUL is the Only Candidate Running.
The rest are posers, Saudi Puppets, and no shows.
All they can offer to you is 8 More years of genocidal warfare against Iran,
and the death of countless boys and girls in the USA Military.
Fascists pushing the USA into preemptive nuclear war are of NO benefit to the USA.
SAVE THE USA! RON PAUL 2008! - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Signed...But there aren't many sigs right now. Has this petition not been advertised anywhere?
- LosingTheFight, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5The war will end one way or the other. The question is, what is better for America first and Iraqis second. I don't mean to sound cold-hearted (I truly feel for these people) but from what i understand there will be a civil war regardless of if we leave now or in thirty years. I wonder if it would be better to allow the Iraqis figure it out on their own (with the understanding that yes, innocent lives will be and have already been lost) or for us to keep putting up with their ineptness. I mean, they are taking all of August off... what would happen if the US military did the same?
- polyGone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3On his Google interview, he blatantly said it would not be all at once. Johnny, try listening before you open your mouth.
- BESTenemy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Look at our sliding dollar value. The war is pulling us into debt deeper and deeper. At the same time, the Middle East that we used to hold at a barrel of a gun, is slowly loosing its confidence in our ability to enforce our aggressive foreign policy. In other words, they see how the war is draining our nation and placing their bets against our ability to wage another one. We tried setting an example in Iraq, but the war that was supposed to end right there, when we eliminated Saddam, stretched on into infinity. If we wanted to retreat, calling it a victory, that was the time.
Now it's getting to the point where no new politician is going to be able to undo the damage. We're insolvent. - bratpack8, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3If anyone doesn't realize Osama and his clan don't understand that we spend at least $100 for every $1 they spend, and that is a key to their victory over us (by bankrupting us), then they need to do some more research.
- TheBogie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I don't think this is a "strange alliance" as the title says. In fact, there is a common thread between all supporters of Ron Paul's proposal. They are the ones in congress who still have balls. It is no longer democrat vs. republican, it is sack vs. no-sack.
- LeeSoong, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Civilizations too stupid to live in a civilized manner are removed by natural selection.
Darwin's Theories of Evolution and Natural Selection also apply to the social evolution of the human animal. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Why do you spread lies? It's uncalled for. He has never said he'll disband the FED all at once. Take it back or prove it.
- MG1234, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Wow. This seems like a brilliant stroke a la Lincoln's perceptive political decisions (ex. the timing of the Emancipation or choosing competing members for his cabinet thereby elevating their committed contributions).
- cekim, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's called the bill of rights.
- polyGone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yes, but I re-registered, so I could vote in the primaries, anyway.
- Larofeticus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2His proposal is to return the power to coin money to the congress, instead of the independent corporation owned by banks that is the Federal Reserve.
Also to make the private ownership of precious metals legal, remove taxes on their change in value (the money they are priced in changes value, not the metals), and allow for the use of precious metals as legal tender (like the constitution says the states should do, but they ignore that part).
And horrific aftermath is inevitable, if we stay for 6 months, 6 years or 60 years. - Osjpr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3idiot
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Thanks for your opinion. Even though you're way off base.
- SocialPoison, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2People like Republicans because they're economically conservative. This benefit outweighs the social conservative side that many do not like.
People like Democrats because they're socially liberal. This benefit out-weights the economically liberal side
that many do not like.
Once people figure out that the liberal/conservative thing... in the US at least... is a 2D plane we'll all be a lot better off.
Gore/Paul 08'? - Larofeticus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2There is a significant difference between going into a news conference and announcing:
"We're gonna try real hard, and maybe we'll get the troops home in a few months. We control the congress now so we can do it."
Vs.
"It is now the law of the land that combat operations are no longer authorized as of 180 days of passing."
One is a smokescreen to make it appear to the public that something is happening (which it never does).
The other is actually going to solve the problem. - erishi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Did you read the act? The act says to abolish the board of governors, not the federal reserve itself.
- SocialPoison, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Oh go DIAF.
We've made a mistake and it's time for us to get the fsk out. We CAN do this in an orderly fashion and yes, we're leaving these people to figure it out on their own... but failure in this was inevitable. What would it matter if we stayed another year? ZIp. - AwesomeAndy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You know you're allowed to vote for candidates that aren't in your registered party, right?
- SouthsideIrish, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Aye, why don't we just go back to the constiitution
- SouthsideIrish, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Please do not compare Ron Paul to Lincoln because I don't think he would like the comparison
- darkmule, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Woot, Go Eni!
- Larofeticus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1A bloodbath is going to occur no matter what. And if we leave or stay, everyone in the region is going to blame us for it. At least if we leave we are saving American lives and slowing the rate by which we bankrupt ourselves. In the short term it will be bad, but in the long term it will be better. As the various Shia and Sunni states fight for power in the region, but funding militias and providing weapons, the focus will shift away from blaming us, and towards blaming the true perpetrators which are their neighbors. As this shift occurs, the ideological strength of jihad in the region will diminish. It'll take 10-20 unpleasant years, but it will work, which is more than can be said for the last 50 years we've spent intervening in the region.
- Osjpr, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3That's a little disingenuous. There are a few non-mainstream candidates that have actual honesty.
- judgesuds, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1How come it says Mr Paul not Dr Paul?
- Larofeticus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That was unnecessarily divisive.
Constitutionally limited government is a single cause we can all agree on, no matter your party or ideological affiliation. - SocialPoison, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Godwin got in here pretty fast...
- bratpack8, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Funny, I don't recall the immediate proposal from the current administration (and Congress except for Paul) to send troops in including 'the horrific aftermath of any of their plans.'
- faithfreedom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm Vietnamese and I can tell Vietnam would be much better off without US messing around. US backed unelected Ngo Dinh Diem government, preventing the peaceful unification, canceling the first election, making a war.
- teichenauer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1“Allowing a vote on the Paul bill would demonstrate bipartisanship. It’s all about optics,’’ Fein said.
It's all about OPTICS? What does that mean? It has to be a typo.. - bratpack8, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I noticed you listed them all.
- bratpack8, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Clinton wasn't involved...
- teichenauer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The use of the term contender doesn't sound puzzling to me. Contender and candidate are pretty close to being synonyms.
Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.
contender
NOUN: One that competes: competition, competitor, contestant, corrival, opponent, rival. See CONFLICT. - BabaRamDass, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What "horrific aftermath" are you talking about? We bring the troops home as safely as possible, seems pretty straightforward. The area will be in much better shape once we get out of there. I cite Vietnam as a reference.
- BabaRamDass, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam. The sooner we get out, the sooner things will get better.
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