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Deadly winter storm reignites debate over independence of Texas' power grid
Business // Energy
Paul Takahashi, Staff writer
Feb. 19, 2021 Updated: Feb. 19, 2021 7:22 p.m.
West Belfort Street stretches east in the Westbury neighborhood, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, in Houston.Mark Mulligan/Staff photographer
Jason Hartkemeyer couldn't count on his power staying on for more than a couple of hours at a time for three freezing nights, forcing the Cypress resident to crank up his portable generator and ignite a gas fireplace to keep his family warm during this week's historic winter storm.
More than 740 miles away in El Paso, Kitty Schild and her neighbors were comfortably warm during the cold snap as the power never wavered. The longtime El Paso judge heard of the power crisis in the rest of Texas only when a friend in San Francisco texted her Tuesday to ask if she was OK.
The difference between Hartkemeyer and Schild? Hartkemeyer gets his power from the electricity grid overseen by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, while Schild gets hers from the El Paso Electric grid that is connected to a web of power systems in the West.
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"I'm just very, very grateful," Schild, 72, said. "What happened to the rest of Texas is awful. There's no excuse."
The vastly different experiences illustrate the unique nature of the Texas Interconnection, the state's self-contained power grid. The failure of the power system during the storm reignited a debate over the independence of Texas' power system, which if connected to other state grids could have been spared the catastrophic effects.
Texas leaders have called for an investigation into the failure of the state's grid and ways to prevent another catastrophic failure. Meanwhile, former Gov. Rick Perry suggested that Texans would be willing to go days without power if it would keep the state power system free from federal regulations, sparking outrage on social media.
Texas independence
"Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business," Perry said in a blog post Wednesday.
Electricity grids, made up of power generations, transmission lines and substations, began to connect with one another across state lines in the late 19th century as the nation's population boomed in cities. The interconnections accelerated during the first World War as factories ramped up to aid the war effort.
Interconnections and their power-sharing agreements allowed generators to pool resources, expand markets and avoid investing in costly backup power, said Julie Cohn, an energy historian affiliated with Rice University and the University of Houston. But after a 1935 act of Congress created a federal commission to oversee interstate power transactions, Texas power companies retreated within state borders to avoid federal regulations and wholesale price controls.
On HoustonChronicle.com: Texas grid fails to weatherize, repeats mistake feds cited 10 years ago
Drone video shows snow from a historic arctic blast blanketing Houston's Westbury neighborhood on Feb. 15, 2021. Video: Mark Mulligan Houston Chronicle
"Texas is blessed with two time zones, all kinds of economic activity and power generation," Cohn said. "For Texas power companies, the incentive to hook up with a power company in Louisiana or New Mexico wasn't as high because they could achieve economies of scale and efficiencies within the state without having extra federal regulations."
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas was created in 1970 to manage the flow of power in the state and to manage the wholesale power market. ERCOT covers about 75 percent of the state's area and 90 percent of its power load.
Several utilities in border communities such as El Paso, the Panhandle and along the border with Louisiana didn't join the Texas Interconnection, crossing state lines to get power for nearby communities. El Paso Electric Co. — which serves 441,800 customers from Van Horn in West Texas to Hatch, N.M. — is connected to the Western Interconnection. The company owns and operates three natural gas plants in El Paso County, one natural gas plant in Sunland Park, N.M., and a nuclear plant in Wintersburg, Ariz.
"We are closer to California than we are to Dallas," El Paso Electric spokesman George De La Torre said. "Our generating assets were in the West, which made more geographic and economic sense to connect to the western grid."
The difference between the Texas grid and others became apparent this week after a polar vortex plunged much of Texas into a deep freeze, taking out much of ERCOT's natural gas power plants, wind turbines and nuclear facilities. At the same time, demand for electricity and natural gas for residential heating soared. ERCOT said it lost some 34,000 megawatts of power, about 40 percent of the grid's generating capacity.
ERCOT responded by instituting rolling blackouts to ensure that the grid remained operational. Grid operators on Thursday said they were minutes, if not seconds, away from the electricity system's collapse, which could have knocked out power in much of the state for months. Instead, rolling blackouts and power outages affected more than 4 million Texans — about 11 percent of customers on the Texas grid.
Stark contrast
None of El Paso Electric's power plants went offline because of the storm, although their performance fell, De La Torre said. A five-minute outage Sunday affected fewer than 1 percent of El Paso customers — about 2,680. Another 875 customers were without power for three to seven hours — much less than the 30 to 50 hours on the Texas grid.
The storm only slightly affected El Paso Electric because the utility has invested in winterizing power plants and transmission lines to withstand subzero temperatures, but also because it relies on an Arizona nuclear plant for about 665 megawatts of base load electricity in Texas.
"Our nuclear facility and local generation were the main reasons why we were able to provide and maintain reliable power to our customers during the winter storm," De La Torre said. "The outages were related to damaged poles or downed wires. They were not generation related."
Experts say it's uncertain whether interconnections with outside grids would have made a difference for Texans suffering in the frigid darkness.
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"This polar vortex hit everybody," said Ed Hirs, an energy economist at the University of Houston. "Other neighboring states didn't have any excess electricity to sell. They didn't have enough for themselves."
Still, for a state that has been hit with a variety of natural disasters such as wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes and ice storms in recent years, the prospect of having backup power just outside the state line remains alluring. Hartkemeyer, the 48-year-old Cypress resident, pushed back against the notion that Texans would be willing to sacrifice electricity and all the modern necessities that come with it just to keep federal regulators out of Texas' independent grid.
"I think most of us would have had power were we connected to a national grid," Hartkemeyer said. "Instead, we got people who are dying and uncomfortable. This is a travesty that should never have happened."
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Key Words: mtDNA HVI, Pathans of Charsada and Mardan, Population data.
Int. J. Biosci. 8(5), 262-273, May 2016.
Substantial genetic diversity exists in Pakistani human population and understanding the evolution of this diversity is complicated due to several waves of migration from populations in the North and Northwest. Pathans are one of the largest ethnic groups of Pakistan inhabiting the vast geographical areas, specifically the northwestern part.
In the present study, we assessed the extent of genetic diversity using mtDNA sequence analysis of HVI (Hyper variable I) control region of the Pathan populations of Mardan and Charsada districts. A total of 165 buccal swabs were collected from five major populations of the two geographically adjacent districts, Charsada and Mardan. Mitochondrial control region HVI data was generated for all the samples. mtDNA haplogroups were assigned to each sample using a phylotree (www.phylotree.org). Principle Coordinate (PCoA) plot was generated by combining our data set with other published datasets from neighboring populations of central Asia, Middle East, Europe and South Asia. The most frequent mtDNA HVI macro haplogroups R (63.4%), M (26.8%) and N (8.6%) were observed among Pathan populations. Some novel mitochondrial haplogroups (mtDNA Hgs) of M and R sub-clades have also been detected that had not been observed in previous investigation of Pathans. The clustering pattern when compared on the basis of mitochondrial HVI data sets of different neighboring populations depicts less female mediated gene flow among populations. In addition, the mitochondrial genetic structure of some sub-populations may be influenced by Turkish invasion.


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Gemma De Ferrari was an Italian film actress of the silent era.

Selected filmography
 Captain Fracasse (1919)
 Samson (1923)
 Tra i sorrisi di Napoli (1926)
 Goodbye Youth (1927)
 The Confessions of a Woman (1928)
 Star of the Sea (1928)
 Napule e Surriento (1929)
 Maratona (1929)

References

Bibliography
 Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

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Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Italian film actresses
Italian silent film actresses
20th-century Italian actresses
Actresses from Naples

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When you are ready let your guide know and ride up and over Hai Van pass praised by BBC's Top Gear as the most beautiful coastal mountain road in the world.
Have picnic lunch on the mountain, admire the views and enjoy a wander.
Afternoon we ride to Lang Co lagoon, visit fishing villages and also have some time to wander the white sand beach of Lang Co before heading back to Hoi An, admiring the picturesque views of sun set along the way makes a great ending for the day.
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I hit the snooze button an extra time today and it almost ended me. I definitely didn't pop out of bed like I have been. And today was the first day I really didn't want to do it. The other days I didn't even stop to think about it.
No cardio last night because I had to run an errand for work at the end of the day that took me closer to home than a gym. I have to get it in today and tomorrow.
Went to the doc this morning and was not pleased to see that my weight has steadily increased over the last few months. Not happy today.


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Metatrachelas est un genre d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Trachelidae.

Distribution
Les espèces de ce genre se rencontrent en Europe du Sud et en Afrique du Nord.

Liste des espèces
Selon  :
 Metatrachelas amabilis (Simon, 1878)
 Metatrachelas macrochelis (Wunderlich, 1992)
 Metatrachelas rayi (Simon, 1878)

Publication originale
 Bosselaers & Bosmans, 2010 : ''Studies in Corinnidae (Araneae): a new Paratrachelas Kovblyuk & Nadolny from Algeria, as well as the description of a new genus of Old World Trachelinae. Zootaxa, , .

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Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) is pleased to announce that Mike Wasson has joined the ComSpOC team as senior director, DoD Space Operations at AGI's Colorado Springs office.
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Mike recently completed a 26 year career in the US Air Force, retiring at the rank of Colonel. He held a multitude of space operations and space surveillance leadership positions, including Chief, Combat Operations Division, and Deputy Director at the Joint Space Operations Center.
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In 2014, AGI established a Commercial Space Operations Center, which was subsequently incorporated as ComSpOC Corp. ComSpOC Corp. is an AGI affiliate. ComSpOC fuses satellite-tracking measurements from a geographically diverse set of optical, radio frequency (RF), radar and space-based sensors to generate HiDEph and other SSA data products. These results are available via subscription to the next-generation space catalog, SpaceBook™, which currently includes over 9,000 space objects, and 100% of all GEO objects. For more information, visit www.comspoc.com.
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Lee Latchford-Evans Becomes Second Member to Test Positive for Covid-19 Amid Steps Tour
Lee Latchford-Evans enters quarantine because of Covid-19 while bandmate Faye Tozer returns to the stage following a period of isolation after a positive test result.
AceShowbiz - Steps star Lee Latchford-Evans has been forced to pull out of the band's remaining tour dates after testing positive for coronavirus.
The singer bowed out of the group's remaining What The Future Holds concert series ahead of a show at London's O2 Arena on Saturday (27Nov21), the same day bandmate Faye Tozer returned to the stage following her own period of isolation following a positive test result.
A statement about the "disappointing news," shared on the band's Instagram account, reads, "We are sorry to report that in disappointing news, Lee this morning tested positive for Covid-19 which means he is now isolating and will unfortunately be absent for the remainder of our 'What The Future Holds' tour."
"We intend to carry on with the remaining three shows while the rest of us test negative. In good news, in line with government guidelines, Faye returns from her isolation today and will be performing at the O2 tonight."
"We will continue Covid testing ourselves and all our crew daily. We hope you will join us in wishing Lee a speedy recovery."
Lee admitted he was "absolutely gutted" to be off the tour. He wrote on his Instagram story, "Absolutely gutted to be missing the final three shows of our tour but I know the guys will smash it."
And the singer was particularly upset that he'll have to stay away from wife Kerry-Lucy and their four-month-old son Leo.
Sharing a photo of The O2, he wrote, "I should be here doing what I love. Instead I'll be quarantining and not even be able to hug my wife or hold my baby boy."
When she announced she had tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month, Faye admitted she was "baffled" because the group had so many precautionary measures in place.
She said, "I am baffled and gutted after being so tight on our preventative measures. Thankful for our daily testing to have been able to recognise it and so the show can still go on. Please give the guys the biggest love as they continue to smash the shows and I hope to be back soon."
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Over April we have raised £5,644.30 for Malaria Nets with The Against Malaria Foundaiton. This will be enough to buy 3,135 nets and protect over 6,250 people against malaria.
This is the 3rd year Be One Percent has donated to Against Malaria. In total we have now donated enough to buy 5,707 nets meaning our collective donations will be protecting over 10,000 people Against Malaria. These nets will be distributed in Malawi and The Democratic Republic of Congo.
The most effective means of preventing malaria is sleeping under a mosquito net, specifically a long-lasting insecticide treated net (LLIN). With manufacturing costs coming down, each net costs around £1.80, lasts for 3-4 years, and protects, on average, two people.
The statistics are well known given the scale of the problem. Every 50-250 nets we put over heads and beds, one child doesn't die.
The Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) is GiveWell, Giving What We Can and The Life You Can Save's top-ranked charity and has been for five years. AMF is frequently described as the global Effective Altruism movement's #1 charity given the top-billing it achieves year after year judged on impact and effectiveness. AMF's running costs are funded independently meaning 100% of public donations buys nets which are distributed though partner organisations with high levels of data-driven accountability and transparency accompanying each net distribution. Be One Percent's donations to AMF, and the specific net distributions they fund, are shown here. Donations welcome!


Of the many things that fathers from broken marriages endure, guilt can be one of the worst. There is guilt from the breakup of the family and from being removed from the daily lives of their children.
Worse than that, when the father comes from an abusive relationship, that guilt becomes a weapon used against him by the ex-wife. She uses it to extract money and cooperation, to continue her endless punishment of him for "failing" as her husband. She even trains the children in the same tactics, who often learn to manipulate and control the absent father in similar ways to their mother.
While this is typically the way these men have were treated while they were still married, it significantly worsens after the divorce resulting in alienation and often spilling over into whatever future relationships he might have.
Thanks for this information, Paul and Dr. T.
Question: Wouldn't family therapy be one possibility for mending a tainted relationship between a divorced father and his programmed-to-be-resentful children? By family therapy, I mean the dad and the kids — not the ex.
It would, if you can get Crazy to agree to it and not interfere. Or, the court to order it and enforce it without Crazy's interference.
I have been reading articles on your site for the past several years in regards to having been in an abusive marriage for over 15 years. Reading your blog entries helped me understand the abuse that had occurred in my marriage and why I put up with it for so long. Fortunately I got away about 5 years ago but am still recovering from the damage that she did.
Today's webcast in regards to daddy guilt motivated me to join and comment. My ex's alienation of my daughter from me is textbook. My ex has absolutely no respect for me and she has taught my daughter that this is how I am to be treated. I am not worthy of being respected as a human being, let alone as her dad. The sad part is that in looking back I can see that she was teaching her this while I was still living with them.
I made the choice about 2 years ago (when my daughter was 16) to walk away from trying to be in my daughter's life. I went through the courts to get mandated reconciliation counseling with my daughter in the hopes that given the opportunity to work through things we could recover what we had. But you can't work around crazy and her mom simply manipulated the counselor and the system to make the fact that I was forcing her into counseling to be yet another reason to hate me. The constant conflict in trying to figure out how to make the father/daughter relationship work was so destructive that it led me to the choice to step away.
As you describe in your webcast, there was a sense of relief which was quickly followed by a sense of guilt for feeling good when I finally walked away. I told my daughter very clearly that I wanted her in my life, but that I was going to not continue forcing the issue but that when she was ready I would be here for her. However, until hearing today's podcast, I had struggled with how to share with people who ask about her the reasons for making that choice. I told my daughter that I was giving her peace by not continuing the constant conflict. In reality, I was saying to myself that I am not going to be disrespected by her and her mom by letting them control me. Of course, my decision has been thrown back in my face as abandoning her. Funny how she can tell me to leave her alone and stay away from her, but when I choose to do exactly that it becomes me abandoning her. Today I am a better man for not putting up with the disrespect from them.
I have been blessed by marrying a healthy wonderful lady. She has put up with a lot of crap from my past but has also helped me see that I deserve to be treated with respect. We discussed at length continuing the fight with my ex for my daughter. After hearing today's webcast, I believe that my decision to walk away probably saved my current marriage from irreversible damage. I am loved deeply by both my wife and her son and respected by both and I want to protect that for the long future that we are planning on having together.


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He ( The customs officer in India) said: 'You have to go to Benares. That is a very spiritual place, the river Ganga is there so you must go there!'.
Nothing from that impersonal, invisible kind of way of life that I was used from before. From days where I lived in Holland where on the trains people never speak with each other, No way! Nah, no one would speak to a stranger, forget it! And in the winter right, when we sit in trains it gets dark early, like 3:30 in the afternoon 4:00, it gets dark, it gets dark here even earlier. Anyway, in the train it's dark like that right. So the people they are watching each other but not directly. They are looking in the windows at each other. And then when the eyes cross, the eyes are quickly, you know, you see the eye's turn away! Looking at the ceiling or something! And that's all. How different was the Indian train?!
Shoot that was really was something else, you know, first of all it was very cosy, you know, there were lots of people there. But the train I was on was really something else. It was a train like you never seen before! I was on this train, and of course in India on the trains when you go especially second class it can be pretty crowded! So people will not just sit on the benches, which are by the way made of wood, but they also sit in the luggage racks, right?! The luggage was everywhere else, I don't know where it was but the people were sitting in the luggage racks! So I was looking up at them quite amazed, you know, I'd never seen people in a luggage rack before!


The increasing demand for high-resolution, high-quality medical imaging systems in the field of endovascular image guided interventions (EIGI) serves as the motivation for this work that is focused on the design and implementation of an x-ray imager that uses an Electron Multiplying CCDs (EMCCDs) array. The large variable electronic-gain (up to 2000) and small pixel size of EMCCDs provide effective suppression of readout noise compared to signal, as well as high resolution, enabling the development of an x-ray detector with far superior performance compared to conventional x-ray image intensifiers or flat panel detectors. The modular array design was implemented to enable the x-ray detector to cover a full clinical field-of-view (FOV). This FOV was enabled by using fiber optic tapers (FOTs) that make the effective pixel size and FOV three times larger than the inherent EMCCD pixel size and FOV. The newly designed medical imaging system can enhance fluoroscopic and angiographic image quality by improving both the spatial resolution and dynamic range. This system consists of a detector front end and a graphic user interface (GUI). The system can be selected to run at up to 17.5 frames per second or even higher frame rates with different binning schemes. The integration time for the sensors can be adjusted from 1 ms to 1000 ms to match the output pulses of commercial x-ray machines. Twelve-bit correlated double sampling analog to digital converters were used to digitize the images—which were acquired by a National Instruments dual-channel CameraLink PC board in real time. A user-friendly interface was programmed using LabVIEW to send commands, and acquire and to display 2K × 1K pixel matrix digital images for the 2 × 1 array. Image processing techniques were also programmed in LabVIEW to perform image geometric corrections which were introduced by the inevitable mechanical misalignment between the two sensors, and to complete the automatic brightness matching for the array image that was acquired by two identical sensors but that do not have the same gain value due to the slightly different analog circuitry driving the sensors. A unique automatic gain control algorithm was implemented for the EMCCD sensors. This algorithm allowed the imaging system to maintain the brightness of an arbitrarily-shaped operator-selected region-of-interest while keeping the x-ray imaging tube parameters unchanged. The developed x-ray imaging system was evaluated in terms of the modulation transfer function (MTF), detective quantum efficiency (DQE), and noise power spectrum (NPS). In this dissertation, the x-ray detector basics will be introduced in the first chapter, followed by the design theory and realization of the new EMCCD-based detector in chapter two. The measurement of the new detector system's optical and x-ray performance will be presented and discussed in chapter three. In chapter four, image processing techniques will be explored to make this EMCCD-based array imager more suitable for the clinical applications of interest. Finally, chapter five summarizes the results and conclusions that drawn from the work presented in this dissertation and presents a discussion of the future work.


Bowen Residents Action Association Inc.
We are a community non-profit organisation with a particular interest in ensuring that our coastal regions, wetlands and the Great Barrier Reef are preserved and enhanced for their ecological, scenic and recreational values as enjoyed by residents of the Whitsunday community and visitors alike.
· To advocate to government the development of sustainable industry, including those using clean renewable energy sources, as a source of employment for the region.
We are networking with other environmental and community groups to show solidarity to protect our most beautiful region, the Great Barrier Reef and wetlands and most importantly the health of its people.
Bowen is the oldest settlement in Queensland and was established in 1861. It is situated at the top of the Whitsunday Islands with the Great Barrier Reef just 80kms offshore. The filming of the recently released movie "Australia" highlighted the natural beauty and tourism industry potential of the region.
In June 2008 Bowen was named as the preferred site for CHALCO (Aluminium Company of China), to house one of the world's largest aluminium refineries/smelter. In Australia, the Bayer refining process, which was developed in 1887, is utilised in the aluminium refinery and smelting processes and uses highly caustic chemicals. This makes it one of the world's filthiest industries.
The $300million, which has been promised by the Queensland State Government for the infrastructure for CHALCO, makes it an extremely expensive operation for us the taxpayer. When this infra-structure has been built, other large-scale heavy industries associated with "chemical production, mineral processing and metal smelting" will be keen to set up on the Abbot Point State Development Area.
The Keela Valley/ Caley Wetlands are situated 18 kms north of Bowen and comprise of an area of 5,154 hectares. It provides Queensland's largest and most northerly coastal nesting area for black swans and is home for a large number of waterfowl. These wetlands are listed in the National Directory of Important Wetlands and Australia has signed international agreements to protect the birds and their habitats, through the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act of 1999. Permanent water of the site provides an important drought refuge for approximately 20,000 birds. The wetlands are sandwiched between the ever expanding coal port terminal of Abbot Point and the massive State Development Area (SDA) of 16,500hectares.
Large scale heavy polluting industry really does not mix with Bowens well established industries of horticulture worth $250M per annum ( Bowen mangoes, tomatoes, capsicums, beans, corn etc); tourism worth $2.9M; and the fishing industry. These industries rely on a clean, pollution free environment and the Bowen region is known as the largest vegetable growing region of Queensland, the "Salad Bowl of Australia" and "Gem of the Coral Coast"
Permanent water of the site provides an important drought refuge for approximately 20,000 birds comprising 188 listed bird species.


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Rep. Adam Schiff's ISIS AUMF
By Cody M. Poplin
Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 6:26 PM
Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, introduced an authorization for the use of military force against ISIS yesterday.
According to a press release from Rep. Schiff, "First, the authorization would give temporary, tailored authority for the combat ongoing against ISIL in Iraq, and for strikes against ISIL targets in Syria. And second, the measure would harmonize the legal authorities under which the President is authorized to take offensive action by sunsetting the 2002 Iraq AUMF immediately and then sunsetting both the new authorities and the 2001 AUMF eighteen months after the enactment of the joint resolution. Third, the resolution does not authorize the use of ground combat forces in Iraq or Syria."
The draft text is below:
To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against the terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ("ISIL").
Whereas for months Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ("ISIL") has been engaged in an almost unchecked campaign of murder and mayhem across a broad swath of Iraq and Syria that has killed thousands of innocent people and terrorized millions;
Whereas ISIL has brought under its control large areas of Iraq and Syria and announced on June 29, 2014, the establishment of a new caliphate;
Whereas in its conduct of military operations, its treatment of personnel captured on the battlefield, and its behavior towards civilians in areas under its control, ISIL has shown a level of brutality and depravity that shocks the conscience;
Whereas ISIL brutally murdered two American journalists and a British aid worker and has threatened the lives of other western hostages;
Whereas the threat posed by the recruitment of ISIL fighters in the United States and Europe and the prospect of these fighters returning to the United States or allied countries jeopardizes the security of the United States and its allies;
Whereas ISIL poses an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and if left unchecked will be the locus of plots to attack our homeland;
Whereas the rise of ISIL, the continuing threat posed by al Qaeda, and the pending redeployment of United States combat troops from Afghanistan highlight the need to re-examine and harmonize the legal authorities under which the President is authorized to take offensive military action; and
Whereas the President has authority under the Constitution to take action to protect the United States and its citizens from imminent threat or attack but Congress alone holds the power to declare war: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. Short title.
This joint resolution may be cited as the "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against ISIL Resolution".
SEC. 2. Authorization for use of United States Armed Forces.
(a) In general.—The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ("ISIL").
(b) Geographical limitation.—The authority granted in subsection (a) shall be confined to the territory of the Republic of Iraq and the Syrian Arab Republic. The limitation of this subsection shall not apply to the Armed Forces of the United States engaged in training of indigenous Syrian or regional military forces for the purpose of combating ISIL.
(c) No authorization for use of ground forces in combat.—The authority granted in subsection (a) does not include the authority for the deployment of ground forces in a combat role. For purposes of this subsection, "ground forces in a combat role" does not include special operations forces or other forces that may be deployed in a training, advisory, or intelligence capacity.
(d) Termination.—The authority granted in subsection (a) shall terminate on the date that is 18 months after the date of the enactment of this joint resolution.
(e) War powers resolution requirements.—
(1) SPECIFIC STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION.—Consistent with section 8(a)(1) of the War Powers Resolution, the Congress declares that this section is intended to constitute specific statutory authorization within the meaning of section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution.
(2) APPLICABILITY OF OTHER REQUIREMENTS.—Nothing in this joint resolution supersedes any requirement of the War Powers Resolution.
SEC. 3. Repeal of prior authorizations for use of United States Armed Forces.
(a) Repeal.—The following provisions of law are hereby repealed:
(1) The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107–243; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note).
(2) The Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public Law 107–40; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note).
(b) Effective date.—The repeal made by subsection (a)(2) shall be effective as of the date that is 18 months after the date of the enactment of this joint resolution,
SEC. 4. Reports to Congress.
(a) In general.—The President shall, at least once every 60 days after the date of the enactment of this joint resolution, submit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate a report on matters relevant to this joint resolution, including actions taken pursuant to the exercise of authority granted in section 2 and the status of planning for efforts that are expected to be required over the next 60 days.
(b) Consolidation.—To the extent that the submission of any report required in subsection (a) coincides with the submissions of any other report on matters relevant to this joint resolution otherwise required to be submitted to Congress pursuant to the reporting requirements of the War Powers Resolution, all such reports may be submitted as a single consolidated report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate.
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