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American politician (born 1946)
In 2025 Rep. Ilhan Omar sponsored or reintroduced multiple high-profile bills including the Department of Peacebuilding Act (reintroduced Feb. 7, 2025), the Combating International Islamophobia Act (r...
The Obama administration primarily justified drone strikes outside declared battlefields by relying on the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) and on principles of self-defense under i...
Barbara Lee was the lone member of Congress to vote against the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) after the 9/11 attacks and repeatedly opposed and legislatively fought the Iraq War and i...
The Obama administration defended targeted drone strikes primarily by citing the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) as statutory authority to use lethal force against al‑Qaeda and its...
Candidates who publicly vowed to refuse corporate PAC money in 2024 rode a broader, measurable uptick in small-dollar giving, but existing reporting and aggregated data in the sources provided do not ...
A growing number of congressional candidates pledged to refuse corporate PAC money in 2024 and into the 2026 cycle, from high‑profile House members running for higher office to incumbent senators who ...
The Obama administration justified lethal strikes abroad primarily on three legal bases: the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against al-Qaeda and associated forces; the president’s cons...
Nancy Pelosi opposed the 2002 Iraq War Authorization and helped lead House Democratic opposition to the Bush administration’s Iraq policy, a stance credited with helping Democrats retake the House in ...