Q&A: Amid US Senate run, Democratic candidate Alsobrooks speaks on foreign policy issues

“For most nations, the role of the legislative branch in foreign policy is limited to providing a rubber-stamp on the policies of the executive. The United States is different,” said two U.S. senators in the preface of a Senate report. One of those senators, Joe Biden, is now the U.S. president. After referencing the U.S. Constitution, the senators’ preface continues: “It is an arrangement that gives the Senate, and the Committee on Foreign Relations in particular, an essential role in the formulation of foreign policy.”