WASHINGTON, May 21 (UPI) -- President Obama sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner and Senate President Pro Tempore Patrick Leahy Wednesday, notifying Congress that the United States has deployed 80 troops to Chad to aid in the search for more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram, a militant Islamist group.
His letter is in complying with the War Power Resolution which requires the executive branch to notify Congress within 48 hours of American troop commitments.