Capitol Hill Briefing 

# Recapturing Congress’s War Powers: Repeal, Don’t Replace, the 2001 AUMF 

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Date and Time 

May 30, 2018 12 - 1 PM EDT 

Location 

2044 Rayburn House Office Building 

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##### Featuring 

Featuring **Gene Healy**, Vice President, Cato Institute; and **John Glaser**, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by **Jeff Vanderslice**, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute. 

Congress’s most solemn constitutional duty is to determine whether, where, and against whom the United States will engage in war. Yet for far too long, legislators have ceded that responsibility to the executive branch, allowing multiple administrations to use the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) as a blank check to wage war whenever and wherever the president decides.

As Congress determines how to respond to growing demands for a new AUMF, it should beware of proposals that would institutionalize mission creep by surrendering more authority to the executive branch. Instead, Congress should repeal—and not replace—the 2001 AUMF.

Please join us as Cato’s Gene Healy and John Glaser discuss the practical consequences of Congress’s abdication of its war-making powers and how Congress can reassert its rightful place as the branch of government responsible for determining the time, place, and targets of war.

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