Two kinds of War Powers Legislation awaited final action in the Senate and the House in 1973. ... The other, more importantly, allowed Congress to use Congressional power to prevent the Executive from taking us into a third Indo-Chinese war. ... Then too, as with the undeclared war in Vietnam, this was a bi-partisan phenomenon. ... Congress passed war powers bills but they died with the session when the differences between them could not be reconciled. ... Senators Church of Idaho and Case of New Jersey introduced a bill forbidding the use of any funds whatsoever to finance the re-involve...

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