On the recordSeptember 22, 2003
I was one of the 23 who voted against giving the President the power, which the Constitution doesn't give him, the power to declare war.
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Robert C. Byrd
I was one of the 23 who voted against giving the President the power, which the Constitution doesn't give him, the power to declare war.
Senator Byrd expresses his opposition to war powers granted to the President.
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It seems to me that we ought to at least bow to the Constitution as we enter into this temple of the destructive doctrine of first strike.
I hope that wherever you can share your views, you will, because it's pretty easy in history to see this.
I'm growing increasingly concerned about the continuing and possibly growing insurgency in Afghanistan.
to start--in an appropriations supplemental, a multiyear appropriations request, strikes me to be very, very strange.