Clinton to cosponsor Webb bill on Iran

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by LarryInNYC
Mon Oct 01, 2007 at 02:19:35 PM PDT
Just a short note -- Taylor Marsh is breaking the news that Hillary Clinton will cosponsor (with author Jim Webb) a bill to require Congressional approval for military action against Iran.

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The language of the bill is not yet known, but Webb previously introduced similar legislation also requiring Congressional authorization with exceptions as follows:

Specifically, the amendment requires that the President seek congressional authorization prior to commencing any broad military action in Iran and it allows the following exceptions: First, military operations or activities that would directly repel an attack launched from within the territory of Iran. Second, those activities that would directly thwart an imminent attack that would be launched from Iran. Third, military operations or activities that would be in hot pursuit of forces engaged outside the territory of Iran who thereafter would enter Iran. And finally, those intelligence collection activities that have been properly noticed to the appropriate committees of Congress


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/10/1/17152/0370