; Whereas, on November 16, 2015, following the attacks on Paris, France, ISIL released a video threatening to strike America at its center in Washington ; Whereas, on November 17, 2015, former Central Intelligence Agency Director Panetta warned that countering the threat posed by ISIL isn’t about containment. It is about defeating ISIS. I think if there’s anything we ought to understand from these last events [in Paris], it’s that we have to go to war against this brutal enemy ; Whereas after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress authorized the use of military force against al Qaeda; Whereas ISIL poses a direct threat to the United States homeland that is equal to or greater than the threat posed by al Qaeda prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; and Whereas, although nothing in this concurrent resolution limits the authorities of the President under article 2 of the Constitution of the United States, Justice Robert H. Jackson wrote in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952) that [w]hen the President acts pursuant to an express or implied authorization of Congress, his authority is at its maximum, for it includes all that he possesses in his own right plus all that Congress can delegate : Now, therefore, be it