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Article I section 8 says congress has the power to regulate branches of the military. Here is something about the space force.
http://www.wafb.com/2019/03/17/congressman-pitches-louisiana-trumps-space-force-locale/

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1. to establish and maintain a navy, to establish post offices and roads, to raise and support armies.
2. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, no title of nobility shall be granted by the US, no bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.
3. https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/12/politics/pelosi-trump-impeachment-house-democrats/index.html
This article is about how some of congress still wants to impeach Trump, regardless of the Speaker of the House saying that she's not interested in trying that. This shows the power of congress to impeach.

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1.https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hres13
2. Article II section IV says, The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

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1. https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-foreign-policy-powers-congress-and-president

The U.S. Constitution parcels out foreign relations powers to both the executive and legislative branches. It grants some powers, like command of the military, exclusively to the president and others, like the regulation of foreign commerce, to Congress, while still others it divides among the two or simply does not assign.

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1. Congress has the power to  regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes
2.Congress is restricted from drawing money from the treasury. Consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.
3.The House passed a resolution unanimously calling for special counsel Robert Mueller's report to be made available to public and Congress
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-unanimously-passes-resolution-calling-mueller-report-trump-be-made-n983221

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1. In Article 1, section 8 the powers of congress is to make laws which should be necessary and proper. Congress has the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports, and excises. They also can regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among several states.
2. In Article 1, section 9 the constitution places limits on the powers of congress. These restrictions include slave trade, suspending civil and legal protections of citizens, apportionment of direct taxes, and granting titles of nobility.
3. Senate is voting against the aid of Saudi War in Yemen. Going against the president, congress can go against what the president wants.

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Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, encouraged lawmakers on Wednesday to oppose the Yemen resolution, calling it "inappropriate and counterproductive." Credit Credit Tom Brenner for The New York Times

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday again rebuked President Trump for his continued defense of Saudi Arabia after the killing of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, voting for a second time to end American military assistance for the kingdom's war in Yemen and to curtail presidential war powers.

The 54-to-46 vote, condemning a nearly four-year conflict in Yemen that has killed thousands of civilians and inflicted a devastating famine, sets the foundation for what could become Mr. Trump's first presidential veto, with the House expected to overwhelmingly pass the measure, possibly this month. The vote also might be the opening salvo in a week where Senate Republicans have the opportunity to hit back at the president's aggressive use of executive power. On Thursday, the chamber will vote on a resolution that would overturn Mr. Trump's declaration of a national emergency to secure funding for his border wall.

"The United States Congress is going to reassert its constitutional responsibility over issues of war that have been abdicated for presidents, Democrats and Republicans, for too many years," said Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont.

Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, encouraged lawmakers on Wednesday to oppose the Yemen resolution, calling it "inappropriate and counterproductive" and warning them not to conflate their displeasure with the administration's response to Mr. Khashoggi's death with the broader issue of the conflict in Yemen. But in a show of defiance, seven Republican senators broke ranks to join the resolution: Mike Lee, of Utah; Susan Collins of Maine; Steve Daines of Montana; Jerry Moran of Kansas; Lisa Murkowski of Alaska; Rand Paul of Kentucky; and Todd Young of Indiana.

Still, Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut and one of the lead backers of the Yemen resolution, warned that "we shouldn't overstate the Republican anti-Trump renaissance," noting that both resolutions under consideration this week had 50-vote thresholds and that Republican defections were relatively limited.

Supporters of the Yemen resolution have faced a long and grueling road to get the legislation onto the president's desk. The Senate - led by the resolution's authors, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Murphy and Mr. Lee - first passed the measure 56 to 41 in December, but Paul D. Ryan, the House speaker at the time, refused to take up the resolution.

His successor, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, did take it up, and the House easily passed it last month. But House Democrats inadvertently derailed the process by supporting a surprise procedural motion offered by Republicans to declare the chamber's opposition to anti-Semitism. By attaching an unrelated amendment to the Yemen resolution, the House ended its "privileged" status, which would have forced the Senate to quickly take it up and send it to Mr. Trump.

The vote on Wednesday was essentially a do-over, and House leadership and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, wary of a repeat derailment, are already urging Democrats to oppose any unrelated amendments that Republicans might add.

The resolution is a rare use of the 1973 War Powers Act, which gave Congress the ability to compel the removal of military forces absent a formal declaration of war. Those powers, created after the Vietnam War, have almost never been used, as lawmakers have demurred from intervening in politically delicate matters of war, peace and support for the troops.

The conflict in Yemen is proving to be different, and the resolution vote came as Republicans have become increasingly willing to register their unhappiness with Mr. Trump's foreign policy. The Senate has rebuked the president on his plan to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan, and the House overwhelmingly registered its opposition to his threats to pull the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

But anger over the administration's dismissive response to the killing of Mr. Khashoggi, a Virginia-based columnist for The Washington Post, has been intense and sustained.

After first playing down his own intelligence officials' reports that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was responsible for the killing, Mr. Trump then blew past a legally mandated deadline that required the White House to report to Congress whether it believed the prince was personally responsible for Mr. Khashoggi's death.

In an attempt to defuse rising anger on Capitol Hill, the White House sent two aides from the State and Treasury Departments last week to a closed-door briefing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But senators on the panel were left unsatisfied, with some suggesting it was time for the full Senate to act.

"The Senate will have to decide whether it's going to impose its own sanctions," said Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida.

The Foreign Relations Committee, now overseen by Senator Jim Risch of Idaho, a Trump loyalist, however, has yet to report out bipartisan legislation introduced last month that would impose new sanctions on the kingdom. Mr. Risch condemned the passage of the resolution on Wednesday evening, calling it "a terrible message of U.S. division and lack of resolve" and a "bad precedent for using the War Powers Resolution to express political disagreements with a president."

Last month, Saudi Arabia, anxious to turn a new page after the killing of Mr. Khashoggi, appointed Princess Reema bint Bandar bin Sultan as its new ambassador to the United States. She will replace Prince Khalid bin Salman, a son of King Salman and a younger brother of the crown prince, who took the post in 2017.

Nicholas Fandos contributed reporting.

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WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday again rebuked President Trump for his continued defense of Saudi Arabia after the killing of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, voting for a second time to end American military assistance for the kingdom's war in Yemen and to curtail presidential war powers.

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1. Some powers Congress has are the power to barrow money on the credit of the United States, provide and maintain a navy, To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, etc.

2. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state., No money shall be drawn from the treasury, No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed, etc.

3. Congress order to ground all boeing 737 planes. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/12/boeing-congress-1264079

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1. Congress has the power to lay and collect taxes, borrow money, regulate commerce, to establish a uniform rule of naturalization and bankruptcies laws, coin money, provide punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin. Congress also holds the power to declare war.
2. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
3.The Senate voted t cancel an national security declaration by President Donald Trump.

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WASHINGTON - The Senate voted 59-41 on Thursday to cancel President Donald Trump's national security declaration to fund a wall on the border, as 12 Republicans joined Democrats in an unusual rebuke of the president.

Trump has vowed to veto the measure, which would block him from making an end run around Congress to obtain billions of federal dollars that have been set aside for other purposes to build the wall he has promised along the border with Mexico.

The vote could play a role in coming lawsuits challenging the emergency declaration. Before the vote, nine Republican senators said they would support the measure: Jerry Moran of Kansas, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mike Lee of Utah, Mitt Romney of Utah, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Susan Collins of Maine.

The number of GOP defections grew when the final votes were tallied to include Marco Rubio of Florida, Roy Blunt of Missouri and Roger Wicker of Mississippi. Moran and Alexander have announced that they don't plan to seek re-election next year, while Collins is up for re-election in 2020.

Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., conceded last week that the resolution would clear the 51-vote threshold needed to pass.

After the measure passed, Trump tweeted simply:

The measure, passed by the House of Representatives in February, now heads to Trump's desk. It would be the first veto of his presidency.

Earlier at the White House, the president told reporters that the result of the vote didn't matter.

"I'll probably have to veto and it's not going to be overturned, and we're going to have our whole thing," he said.

He added, "The legal scholars all say it's totally constitutional. It's very important, it's really a border security vote. It's pure and simple - it's a vote for border security, it's a vote for no crime."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement after the measure passed that Trump's declaration "is an unlawful power grab that does violence to the Constitution and fundamentally alters the separation of powers."

"This is not an emergency, and the Congress has declared in a strong bipartisan voice that the President's fearmongering doesn't make it one," Pelosi said.

In a tweet Thursday morning seemingly aimed at swaying lawmakers on the fence, Trump said that if Congress wanted to "update the law" that grants the president power to declare a national emergency, "I will support those efforts, but today's issue is BORDER SECURITY and Crime!!! Don't vote with Pelosi!"

Romney, a frequent Trump critic, said that he would vote in favor of the resolution because of the broader implication of Trump's declaration, which the president wants to use to pay for a border wall Congress has refused to fund.

"I will vote today for the resolution of disapproval," Romney said. "This is a vote for the constitution and for the balance of powers that is at its core. For the executive branch to override a law passed by Congress would make it the ultimate power rather than a balancing power."

He added, "This is not a vote against border security. In fact, I agree that a physical barrier is urgently needed to help ease the humanitarian crisis at the southern border, and the administration already has $4.5 billion available within existing authority to fund a barrier - even without an emergency declaration."

Alexander, in announcing on the Senate floor that he would support the measure, called the declaration a "dangerous precedent."

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., slammed Trump for declaring an emergency "because he lost with Congress."

"He had to trample on the Constitution to continue his fight," Schumer said.

Should Trump follow through on his veto threat, it is unlikely that Congress would be able to overturn it.

Trump declared the national emergency weeks after the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, lasting more than a month, which followed Congress' refusal to acquiesce to his demand for more than $5 billion in funding to build a massive wall along the southern border with Mexico. Trump used the emergency declaration in hopes of redirecting billions of federal dollars to build the wall without congressional approval.

Trump on Thursday labeled the Democratic lawmakers opposed to his emergency declaration "'Border Deniers.'"

"They refuse to see or acknowledge the Death, Crime, Drugs and Human Trafficking at our Southern Border!" he tweeted.

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Hours before the crucial vote, the president tweeted, "The Southern Border is a National Security and Humanitarian Nightmare, but it can be easily fixed!"

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2-No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one state, be obliged to enter, clear or pay duties in another.
3- Members of Congress implored the FAA to ground the Boeing 737 Max 8 after a deadly crash in Africa. Several senators called for the aircraft to be grounded until the cause of the crash can be determined.

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WASHINGTON - Members of Congress implored the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday to ground the Boeing 737 Max 8 following a deadly crash in Africa that prompted European authorities to suspend their flights in Europe.

Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., and Mitt Romney, R-Utah, called for an immediate cessation of flights until investigators can determine the cause the crash on Sunday and another in Indonesia. Warren noted that six countries have already ordered the plane grounded.

"The FAA should follow their lead, reverse their decision, and immediately ground this plane in the United States until its safety can be assured," Warren said in a statement.

The FAA on Tuesday stood by its statement that the plane is airworthy. There are 74 Boeing 737 Max 8s registered to fly in the United States, according to the FAA.

"If we identify an issue that affects safety, the FAA will take immediate and appropriate action," the statement said.

The European Aviation Safety Agency suspended operations for the Boeing Max 737 models 8 and 9 in Europe on Tuesday as a "precautionary measure."

Boeing, in a statement Tuesday, restated its "full confidence in the safety of the MAX" following the decision by the United Kingdom to ground the aircraft.

"It is also important to note that the Federal Aviation Administration is not mandating any further action at this time, and based on the information currently available, we do not have any basis to issue new guidance to operators," Boeing concluded in its statement.

Romney called on the FAA to ground the plane out of an "abundance of caution for the flying public."

Blumenthal, Monday evening, called for the plane to be grounded to protect travelers, pilots and flight attendants.

Feinstein joined Blumenthal Monday in beseeching the FAA to take action.

"Until the cause of the crash is known and it's clear that similar risks aren't present in the domestic fleet, I believe all Boeing 737 Max 8 series aircraft operating in the United States should be temporarily grounded," Feinstein wrote to the FAA.

Warren, a candidate for president, said the planes should be grounded immediately and called for Congress to hold hearings.

"The world has now witnessed the second tragic crash of one of these planes in less than six months," Warren said. "While we do not know the causes of these crashes, serious questions have been raised about whether these planes were pressed into service without additional pilot training in order to save money."

The Senate's committee with oversight of aviation does not issue statements on accidents while investigations are underway, said Commerce Committee spokeswoman Brianna Manzelli.

More: 'A punch in the nose for Boeing': Second fatal crash raises questions about plane's safety

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To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States.
2. The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
3. Trump is wanting to fund his wall and congress is going to vote on whether or not he will get his funding but clearly they are going against him.

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The Senate is set to vote Thursday on the House resolution to terminate Donald Trump's national emergency. The resolution should pass, as enough Republican senators have already indicated that they will vote to terminate. Assuming they do, the resolution will go to Trump's desk, where he will likely veto it - the first veto of his presidency. It is unlikely that there are enough votes in the House or the Senate to sustain a veto override of the president.

This likely set of events has made many argue that the vote to terminate the national emergency is merely "symbolic." If Congress can't override the president's veto, what is the point?

As a philosophical matter, I'm sick to death of people who think that voting to follow LAWS doesn't matter unless Republicans in Congress agree. It's the intellectual equivalent of saying that we shouldn't have laws because criminals won't follow them. At some point, the Republican unwillingness to defend Constitutional government is not a reason others shouldn't try to defend it.

On the specific issue of Trump's national emergency, the vote, and forcing a presidential veto, is far from mere symbolism. There are live legal issues about Trump's authority to steal funds to build a wall with money that Congress didn't appropriate, and those issues are made more clear if Congress votes to terminate.

The most obvious legal issue is the value in clear Congressional objection to Trump's use of funds. We've talked before about Justice Robert Jackson's concurrence in Youngstown v. Sawyer. There, Jackson outlined that executive power was at it's "lowest ebb" when it goes against the expressed will of Congress.

I don't think there is much debate left about whether Congress wants to fund Trump's wall. It does not. But voting to terminate a national emergency designed to fund Trump's wall would be the clearest statement yet that Trump is trying to fund the wall over expressed Congressional objection. A vote to terminate the national emergency leaves Trump with his executive powers, and only those powers. That might matter to a judge or justice.

But I also think the vote matters on a more fundamental level of separation of powers and the constitutionality of the entire National Emergencies Act.

The NEA is, on its face, a violation of nondelegation doctrine. Congress is not supposed to give away its essential legislative functions, and spending money is among the most "essential" Congressional functions in the Constitution. Now conservatives will tell me - at least they would have told me back when conservatives had principles - that we violate nondelegation doctrine all the time and it's terrible. Liberals would tell me that violating nondelegation doctrine is fine, so long as Congress can take their power back, whenever they want.

The original NEA was written with this "take backsies" save in mind. In the original law, Congress could vote to terminate a declared national emergency, and that vote was NOT subject to presidential veto.

But then, Chadha v. INS happened. The Supreme Court ended the concept of a "legislative veto" of executive action. In response, the NEA was amended to require a joint resolution to terminate a national emergency, and joint resolutions must be signed by the president.

I would argue that the NEA wasn't severable from its original termination clause. I would argue that once the president was given the power to veto a resolution terminating his national emergencies, then the whole law became an unconstitutional violation of separation of powers. (There's a whole cannon of law that deals with whether the requirement of supermajority, as in the case of a veto override, is in fact a retention of Congressional power. It's not clear and I don't want to give Westlaw any more money to really dig into that.)

IF the president can take over the appropriations function of Congress, AND the president can veto Congress's attempts to take the power back, then the president can overcome Article I of the Constitution by saying: "Abracadabra Emergency!" And that can't really be the constitutional separation of powers that the framers imagined.

Who might agree with me on my view? Well, Neil Gorsuch might. He really might.

The Supreme Court is currently deliberating Gundy v. U.S. The case involves the sex-offender registry and whether Congress can delegate its control over it to the Attorney General. At oral arguments, Gorsuch expressed a lot of skepticism that Congress could delegate its power in this way. From SCOTUSblog:

The fact that the delegate here is the attorney general evidently concerned Justice Neil Gorsuch, who commented that he had "trouble thinking of another delegation in which this Court has ever allowed the chief prosecutor of the United States to write the criminal law for those he's going to prosecute."

The Gundy case could be a reassertion of nondelegation doctrine.

We also know more generally that Gorsuch has a lot of issues with "Chevron deference," the concept that the Courts should defer to executive branch interpretations of Congressional acts.

The progressives on the Court can be trusted to stop Trump based on the fact that it's not a "real" emergency, but Gorsuch is a Republican who voted for the Muslim ban. We know that he thinks the president has the power to be bigoted and wrong to whoever he wants if he clicks his heels and says "national security" three times.

But everything in Gorsuch's history suggests a jurist who is hostile to the executive branch taking over powers that belong in Congress. The Senate override vote matters because it gives Gorsuch a hook to hang his vote upon. Congress tried to stop the president, and if they can't, Gorsuch is the kind of guy who might spike the whole NEA as unconstitutional.

Call me crazy, but I could see the justice Trump appointed to a stolen Supreme Court seat being the fifth vote to block Trump's national emergency wall.
Elie Mystal is the Executive Editor of Above the Law and a contributor at The Nation. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at elie@abovethelaw.com. He will resist.

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The Senate is set to vote Thursday on the House resolution to terminate Donald Trump's national emergency. The resolution should pass, as enough Republican senators have already indicated that they will vote to terminate. Assuming they do, the resolution will go to Trump's desk, where he will likely veto it - the first veto of his presidency.

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2. Congress cant restrict state commerce, but they can  tax imports.
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1. Article 1, Section 8 says congress has the power to levy taxes in order to pay debts and to fund the common defense.
2. Congress can not restrict state commerce, but they may put a tax on the imports.
3. President Trump wants to fund his border wall, but Congress is refusing to approve on the budget needed to build the wall. Trump wants to declare a national emergency to bypass Congress because Congress has used their power to to deny the president.

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/09/683501440/congress-aims-to-control-presidents-emergency-powers

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2.  They can not regulate commerce, take money from the treasury, cannot take any gifts from any foreign states.
3. Congress is exercising it's right to provide for the general welfare and common defense by fighting against border security that isn't supported by some of the US citizens

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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen criticized lawmakers who have expressed unease about the president making an end-run around Congress in order to build his border wall. | Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Tuesday that Congressional opposition to her department's border security measures makes her "fear for our democracy," insisting that members of Congress focus on changing the law instead of asking DHS to change how it is enforced.

"You know, I said it before, but I really fear for our democracy when the body who creates the laws is telling the body who enforces the law just don't enforce the law," Nielsen said in an interview with Fox News. "If they don't like the law they should change it, but the men and women at the Department of Homeland Security have sworn an oath to protect communities to secure the homeland and to enforce the law that Congress passed."

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The Department of Homeland Security has come under heavy criticism in recent months over its implementation of President Donald Trump's hard-line immigration policies, most notably including the separation of children from their parents who brought them illegally into the U.S.

Trump, backed up by Nielsen and others at DHS, has insisted that there is a humanitarian and national security crisis at the nation's southern border, prompting him to declare a national emergency to secure funding for his long-promised border wall without appropriations from Congress. A resolution rolling back that declaration has already passed the House and is poised to pass the Senate on Thursday with bipartisan support. Trump has threatened to veto the measure.

The secretary insisted that the emergency declaration is within Trump's constitutional authority, and criticized lawmakers who have expressed unease about the president making an end-run around Congress in order to build his border wall.

Asked in an interview on Fox News what critics of the Trump administration were "getting wrong" about its approach to border security, Nielsen noted that DHS "is a law enforcement agency - so we enforce the law."

Nielsen also argued that there was a "misunderstanding" between members of Congress who criticize U.S. Customs and Border Protection, asserting that the agency had been unfairly politicized in recent years for carrying out the same policies it always has.

"Many of the policies and the ways in which CBP has been protecting our community for decades are the same - they're just suddenly now political and partisan," she said.

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FY19 National Defense Authorization Act- This give National Denfense a large sum of money to upgrade technology and provide for proper resources. Congress can pass laws that provide for common defense.

2. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1152

This gives the Veterans medical care for free. Congress can pass laws that provide for general welfare.