Senators introduce new war powers resolution
(World News USA)

WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman and other members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unveiled a bipartisan resolution Monday authorizing the use of military force overseas, accelerating a debate that Congress has been reluctant to have, but that`s taking on new urgency after President Donald Trump`s strikes on Syria. The resolution from Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., would repeal the broad authorizations Congress approved in 2001 and 2002 for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, replacing them with new authority to go after specific `non-state terrorist groups.` A growing number of critics say Congress should no longer be using the more than decade-old resolutions as...