Appropriations Committee Debate on the 2021 Defense Department spending bill. After considering additional amendments, the bill passed by a vote of 3022. The memberpose does from california rise . Member from california . You. Ank i have an amendment. Will read the amendment. I ask unanimous consent to waive the reading. Without objection. Thank you, madam chair. Amendment is straightforward. It would stop the president from starting a war with iran. Has language the house has already adopted. This would not prohibit the president from using the authority he already has to respond to any attack on the United States or our allies. Makes it clear that the president of the United States cannot go to war without express authorization from congress. Chair, we know the administration has taken steps to escalate tension with iran justify an unconstitutional, unauthorized war. First, despite the fact that the remainder of our European Partners stated they would remain committed to the treaty ,
Chair lowey i will say good morning again. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members could send anything they wish to submit in writing. That email address has been provided to your staff. Our first order of Business Today is consideration of the department of defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2021. I will not recognize to present the bill. Thank you, madam chairwoman. Before i begin my remarks, i reluctantly have to acknowledge this will be my final Opening Statement before the House Appropriations committee. I have no new revelations to make but for those of you who will remain on this committee, there are a few things i would like to say. Him saying them as someone who is so compulsive, he saved the congressional record on the day he was appointed to this committee after years of efforts, which makes mr. Rogers, my good friend, the only person
Was of President Trump, actually before the election and shortly after when i listened to him and he expressed this sentiment, which was, with Hillary Clinton and her transgressions and the way she handled the classified material and up to the secret server next to the bathroom up in new york, in her place, the president s position was, we need to move America Forward and we shouldnt go backwards on this or looking back. Lets move forward. And the public has litigated that. Thats where President Trump wanted it to be, but it wasnt to be because the left could not accept the idea that the American People had spoken. So they began to manufacture and continue the manufacturing of this Russian Investigation, allegations that there were investigation and i dont doubt that they made it. But we doubt that they had any impact on our election and we have seen zero evidence that the campaign of President Trump had any kind of relationship that went on with the russians that promoted or coluded i