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Vance Serchuk

Vance Serchuk is an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and previously served as a foreign policy adviser to Sen. Joseph Lieberman.

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AUMF

Congress Should Oversee America’s Wars, Not Just Authorize Them

Richard Fontaine, Vance Serchuk   Thu, Jun 7, 2018, 7:30 AM

Nearly 17 years after the 9/11 attacks, a bipartisan coalition of senators has put forward legislation that promises to overhaul the legal framework for America’s worldwide campaign against terrorism. Proponents of this measure argue the existing authorization for military force—an AUMF in wonk-speak—passed back in September 2001 has become woefully outdated. The failure to modernize it, supporters say, represents a dereliction of duty by Congress.