Pretty Please?

Warren Christopher and James Baker chaired a committee charged with re-doing the War Powers Act (which is pretty worthless) at a time where the Constitution's opaque directions to the President and Congress couldn't be more at issue. David Broder outlines their proposal. It doesn't sound bad - but it doesn't sound much different from the war powers act. And I figure that whenever war comes up, the President will hold his powers jealously, and the Congress will timidly try to counter-balance them .... just as it has always been.