(01.04.) The law provided the legal groundwork for the administration’s aggressive counterterrorism strategy, from armed drone strikes to “kill/capture” missions, raids similar to the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011.

One option that Senate supporters of repealing or dramatically replacing the law have considered is a push to include language in the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2015 defense budget bill. That measure is a must-pass bill and will likely begin working its way through the Senate this spring.