Bennet, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Create Independent Commission to Study Afghanistan War

Legislation Will Help Ensure Our Nation Learns the Right Lessons

Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, along with U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii), Angus King (I-Maine), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), introduced the Afghanistan War Study Commission Act to establish a nonpartisan, independent commission to examine the war in Afghanistan, including the political and strategic decisions that transformed a focused military mission into a vast, nation-building campaign that became the longest war in our nation’s history.
Today, Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper and Colorado U.S. Representatives Diana DeGette (D), Joe Neguse (D), Jason Crow (D), Ed Perlmutter (D), Doug Lamborn (R), and Lauren Boebert (R) sent a letter to the Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall urging him to suspend the Trump Administration's decision to move U.S. Space Command from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Huntsville, Alabama until the administration conducts a thorough review.