MaryDiane Baker: No war vote, no Guard

Dear Editor,There’s a bipartisan state-level effort in the Vermont House for the Defend the Guard Act, H.355. This bill declares that our Guard can only be deployed to participate in an armed conflict when the U.S. Congress has used its constitutional power to declare war. This power resides solely with Congress, not the White House. Two recent events bring this to the forefront and underscore the need to pass H.355 now. The White House deployed Vermont Air National Guard units to Pu