Video: Symposium on congressional capacity and endless war in Afghanistan & Syria
The Brennan Center’s Elizabeth Gotien, and R Street’s Casey Burgat, Anthony Marcum, and James Wallner discuss Congressional Capacity and the Endless War in Afghanistan & Syria at the Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group Symposium on November 12, 2019.
Four white papers were published for the symposium:
- Casey Burgat, Congressional undersight: Congress’s low capacity in foreign affairs and war-making;
- Louis Fisher, Congress Must Protect Its Constitutional Power Over War;
- Anthony Marcum, Why Congress Can’t Sue to End Military Conflicts, Anthony Marcum; and
- James Wallner, A dynamic relationship: How Congress and the presidency shape foreign policy.