CSPAN2 U.S. Senate Sens. Schumer Menendez On Iran July 13, 2024
Consent the quorum be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer madam president , today the senate will vote on a bipartisan war powers resolution offered by senator kaine directing the president to terminate the use of armed forces for hostilities against the republic of iran, the Islamic Republic of iran. The constitution is clear, congress has the power to declare war. The president has no authority to enter the United States into another endless conflict in the middle east, but i fear that the president s erratic decisionmaking, his lack of strategy, his inabilit...