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Question

NPR’s “Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!” is heard weekends on public radio stations across the country. (npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/)

1. The War Powers Act requires Congressional approval within 90 days of the start of hostilities with a foreign country. But President Obama says the act does not apply to the conflict in Libya... why?

A. Secretly, Libya really wants to be bombed.

B. “But they started it!”

C. The months-long bombing campaign doesn’t count as “hostilities.”

D. The War Powers Act is more of a “suggestion” than a “rule.”

 

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