[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 198 (Monday, November 15, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S8202]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4656. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 4133 submitted by Mr. Kaine and intended to be proposed to 
the amendment SA 3867 proposed by Mr. Reed to the bill H.R. 4350, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        On page 2, between lines 12 and 13, insert the following:
       (3) Article II of the United States Constitution empowers 
     the President, as Commander-in-Chief, to direct the use of 
     military force to protect the Nation from an attack or threat 
     of imminent attack and to protect important national 
     interests, and the recent presidential administration held 
     that Article II authorizes ``the President to use force 
     against forces of Iran, a state responsible for conducting 
     and directing attacks against United States forces in the 
     [Middle East] region'' and for actions the purpose of which 
     are ``to end Iran's strategic escalation of attacks on, and 
     threats to United States interests,'' so the 2002 AUMF is not 
     independently required to authorize any such activities.
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