In this task, you are given a sentence in the Japanese language and your task is to convert it into the English language. In translation, keep numbers as it is and make it sentence case (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and noun).

コッター川のダムは4年間も建設中である。
The dam on the Cotter River has been under construction for four years.

アフガニスタンの首都カブールのすぐ外の米軍基地の門で今日、自動車爆弾が爆発した。
A car bomb exploded today at the gates of a U.S. military base, just outside the Afghan capital of Kabul.

バイデン氏は「私は現在大統領に対し認められたイラクでの軍事力行使の権限ではそれをカバーしておらず、彼がそれをするには議会の承認を必要とすると考える」と言った。

Biden said, "I believe the present authorization granted the president to use force in Iraq does not cover that, and he does need congressional authority to do that."