Bennet, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Create Independent Commission to Study Afghanistan War
Legislation Will Help Ensure Our Nation Learns the Right Lessons
Oct 01, 2021
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.