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...draft resolutions Congress considered but did not pass last week called on President Bush to postpone military action against Iraq and give sanctions time to work. That is the approach most senior Democrats on Capitol Hill favor, along with a significant portion of the U.S. public and some of the other 27 countries arrayed against Saddam Hussein in the gulf. Said Senate majority leader George Mitchell: "I don't think we should go to war. I believe that the correct policy is to continue the economic sanctions...
Cheney decided he would not beg Congress for the money now, only to return later and plead for more. He ordered the Navy not to try an end run by seeking out friends on Capitol Hill to find the funds. Then he courageously killed the program. Said Cheney: "If we cannot spend the taxpayers' money wisely, we will not spend...
...Cambridge city councillor delivered an appeal for withdrawal of U.S. troops to Capitol Hill yesterday, after the council passed a motion urging a diplomatic solution to the crisis...
...fence as long as it remains unclear whether the military option can succeed at acceptable cost. Though some may loudly question White House policy, few have ventured any on-the-record challenge. That suits the President just fine. Bush says he is willing to continue "consulting" with Capitol Hill leaders, but he has made no effort to seek outright congressional approval for his push toward war. His concern, as he explained to TIME in an interview published last week, is that anything less than an overwhelming endorsement of his policy by Congress would convince Saddam that the U.S. is divided...
...case for involving Congress merely academic. Vietnam is now regarded as a warning that disaster awaits any President who leads the country into a lengthy war without the support of Congress. Even hawks on Capitol Hill say that in the event of an extended and bloody struggle in the gulf, it will be crucial for the President to have Congress on record as with him from the outset. "If you want Congress in on the landing," says House Democrat Stephen Solarz of New York, who supports the use of force against Saddam, "you had better have Congress...