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Congressional Power Advantage 

Plan is key to enhance Congressional power, credibility, and authority
Ackerman and Hathaway, Yale Law School Professors, 11
(Bruce and Oona, “LIMITED WAR AND THE CONSTITUTION: IRAQ AND THE CRISIS OF PRESIDENTIAL LEGALITY,” Michigan Law Review, February 2011, p. Lexis) 

At the same time… the conflict responsibly to a close

Power of the purse is the most important congressional power
Holt, former chief of staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 4-5-07
(Pat, “The role of Congress in checking the power of the president,” CSM, accessed 8-14-13, http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0405/p09s01-coop.html) 

These powers, plus the… US involvement in Vietnam

Only a strong, active Congress can garner the public support essential for US global leadership
Zoellick, Former Deputy Secretary of State, 00
(Robert, Deputy Secretary of State, “Congress and the Making of US Foreign Policy,” Survival, Winter, p. 23)

Today, America's leaders… drawing in the public

U.S. hegemony is vital to preventing great power war and decreasing overall levels of conflict and violence globally
Kagan, Brookings Institute Senior Fellow, 12
(Robert, The World America Made, page 48-51) 

We now know this judgment,… regional hegemonies by force

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U.S. participation in future wars are inevitable
Astore, Retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, 7-8-10
(William, “Hope and Change Fade, but War Endures,” accessed 8-15-13, http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175271/tomgram3A_william_astore,_operation_enduring_war/)

If one quality characterizes our wars… those in the business of war

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The United States Congress should set a date for the expiration of their authorization for the use of military force whenever the President of the United States requests authorization for the use of military force.

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Solvency

Now is the key time for Congress to take back their war powers authority—inaction will quickly entrench status quo precedents; statutory limits solve because it provides the credibility and show of congressional resolve necessary to deter the executive
Ackerman and Hathaway, Yale Law School Professors, 11
(Bruce and Oona, “LIMITED WAR AND THE CONSTITUTION: IRAQ AND THE CRISIS OF PRESIDENTIAL LEGALITY,” Michigan Law Review, February 2011, p. Lexis) 

4. Political Dynamics over… the need for presidential approval.

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Spending Advantage

Plan solves for the practice of the executive using emergency spending bills to pay for war costs
Ackerman and Hathaway, Yale Law School Professors, 11
(Bruce and Oona, “LIMITED WAR AND THE CONSTITUTION: IRAQ AND THE CRISIS OF PRESIDENTIAL LEGALITY,” Michigan Law Review, February 2011, p. Lexis) 

3. Period Three: The Period of Withdrawal… to the conflict make sense?

Continued status quo governmental spending crushes the U.S. economy in the short term—the time to act is now
Boccia, Heritage Foundation Research Coordinator, 2-12-13
(Romina, “How the United States’ High Debt Will Weaken the Economy and Hurt Americans,” accessed 8-21-13, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/02/how-the-united-states-high-debt-will-weaken-the-economy-and-hurt-americans)

U.S. federal spending in 2013… The time to act is now

Global economic crisis causes war---strong statistical support
Royal, director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010
(Jedediah, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215, ldg)

Less intuitive is how… considered ancillary to those views.