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Whereas, on November 16, 2015, following the attacks on 
Paris, France, ISIL released a video threatening to 
‘‘strike America at its center in Washington’’; 
Whereas, on November 17, 2015, former Central Intelligence 
Agency Director Panetta warned that countering the 
threat posed by ISIL ‘‘isn’t about containment. It is 
about defeating ISIS. I think if there’s anything we 
ought to understand from these last events [in Paris], it’s 
that we have to go to war against this brutal enemy’’; 
Whereas after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, 
Congress authorized the use of military force against al 
Qaeda; 
Whereas ISIL poses a direct threat to the United States 
homeland that is equal to or greater than the threat 
posed by al Qaeda prior to the terrorist attacks of Sep-
tember 11, 2001; and 
Whereas, although nothing in this concurrent resolution lim-
its the authorities of the President under article 2 of the 
Constitution of the United States, Justice Robert H. 
Jackson wrote in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Saw-
yer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952) that ‘‘[w]hen the President 
acts pursuant to an express or implied authorization of 
Congress, his authority is at its maximum, for it includes 
all that he possesses in his own right plus all that Con-
gress can delegate’’: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This concurrent resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Au-
thorization for Use of Military Force Against the Islamic 
State of Iraq and the Levant and its Associated Forces’’. 
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF UNITED STATES 
ARMED FORCES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President is authorized to 
use all necessary and appropriate force in order to defend 
the national security of the United States against the con-
tinuing threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the 
Levant, its associated forces, organizations, and persons, 
and any successor organizations. 
(b) WAR POWERS RESOLUTION REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) SPECIFIC
STATUTORY
AUTHORIZATION.— 
Consistent with section 8(a)(1) of the War Powers 
Resolution, Congress declares that this section is in-
tended to constitute specific statutory authorization 
within the meaning of section 5(b) of the War Pow-
ers Resolution. 
(2) 
APPLICABILITY
OF
OTHER
REQUIRE-
MENTS.—Nothing in this concurrent resolution 
supercedes any requirement of the War Powers Res-
olution. 
SEC. 3. REPORTS TO CONGRESS. 
(a) REPORTS.—The President shall, at least once 
every 60 days, submit to Congress a report on matters 
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relevant to this concurrent resolution, including actions 
taken pursuant to the exercise of authority granted in sec-
tion 2. 
(b) SINGLE CONSOLIDATED REPORT.—To the extent 
that the submission of any report described in subsection 
(a) coincides with the submission of any other report on 
matters relevant to this concurrent resolution otherwise 
required to be submitted to Congress pursuant to the re-
porting requirements of the War Powers Resolution, all 
such reports may be submitted as a single consolidated 
report to Congress. 
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