CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings December 4, 2014
Communities deserve far better than the defense bill that passed today. The hidden provision in the amended h. R. 3979 to authorize training and arming the socalled moderate Syrian Rebels for the next two years with no limit on how much money can be spent has seriously polluted this critical piece of legislation. I could not in good conscience vote to support the socalled moderate forces who often work hand in hand with al qaeda or isis and whose personnel and weapons often end up in the hands of those terrorists. This bill continues the same failed practices of undeclared war, regime change a...