The U.S. Senate reasserts its war authority

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🗓️ 30 March 2023

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More than 20 years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Senate voted on Wednesday to repeal the war authorization that allows the office of the President to invade that country without the approval of Congress. Plus, the FDA approves over-the-counter sale of Narcan. And, how baseball looks different this Opening Day. Guests: Axios' Hans Nichols and Jeff Tracy. Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Alexandra Botti, Lydia McMullen-Laird, Fonda Mwangi and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Go Deeper: Senate votes to repeal Iraq War authorization 20 years after invasion FDA approves first over-the-counter opioid overdose treatment The pitch clock takes center stage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Good morning. Welcome to Exios today. It's Thursday, March 30th. I'm Nyla Boudou today on the show
0:39.9	The FDA approves over the counter sales of Narcan
0:43.0	Plus how baseball looks different this opening day, but first today's one big thing the Senate reasserts its war authority
0:50.8	More than 20 years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq the Senate voted yesterday to repeal the war
1:01.2	Authorization that currently allows the office of the president to invade that country without the approval of Congress
1:07.8	The United States
1:09.8	Iraq the entire world has changed dramatically since 2002 and it's time the laws on the books catch up with those changes
1:19.6	That Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaking on the floor of the Senate yesterday the repeal was part of a broader Senate effort
1:26.2	To reassert authority when it comes to the U.S. invading other countries here to explain more about why this matters as Exios politics reporter Hans Nichols
1:34.7	Hey, Hans morning, Hans why is this such a big deal?
1:39.3	Sort of a symbolic clawing back of powers by Congress away from the White House now
1:45.2	It'd be more symbolic if the White House weren't sort of eagerly agreeing to seed them and that's what's interesting here is that the two
1:52.8	You know war powers resolutions or you know authorization of use of military force
1:57.0	They are you know pretty much old pretty much outdated and they're not really being actively used
2:02.7	So it's easy in a way for Joe Biden to say go ahead and take them away
2:06.9	That said we still need to see what the House does and if this Kevin McCarthy bring it to the floor for a vote
2:11.8	Can you remind us why Congress gave over the power of war to the president in the first place?
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