{"id":296141,"date":"2017-02-23T06:34:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T05:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ron-paul-end-unlimited-presidential-war-power\/"},"modified":"2017-02-23T06:34:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T05:34:01","slug":"ron-paul-end-unlimited-presidential-war-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ron-paul-end-unlimited-presidential-war-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: End Unlimited Presidential War Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-28387\"><!-- .entry-header --><!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p> Interviewed Tuesday by host Kennedy at Fox Business regarding efforts by United States House of Representatives members to limit US wars overseas, former House member Ron Paul (R-TX) agreed with Kennedy\u2019s assessment that the ability to unilaterally pursue war is \u201cthe most egregious area where there is too much power concentrated in the presidency.\u201d Paul proceeded to explain that \u201cit has been that way for a long time,\u201d pointing to the Korean War and Vietnam War that were fought without the constitutionally required congressional war declarations.<\/p>\n<p>Noting congressional leadership\u2019s opposition to reining in presidential war powers, Paul advises that House and Senate members can still exercise \u201cthe power of the purse\u201d to end wars by refusing to approve legislation funding the wars.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Paul\u2019s complete interview here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_eTpWrR_Lrk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>. Massie is a member of the Ron Paul Institute.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/AWCBlog\/~3\/yTQkdS36Lsc\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interviewed Tuesday by host Kennedy at Fox Business regarding efforts by United States House of Representatives members to limit US wars overseas, former House member Ron Paul (R-TX) agreed with Kennedy\u2019s assessment that the ability to unilaterally pursue war is \u201cthe most egregious area where there is too much power concentrated in the presidency.\u201d Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-296141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}