Political Quotes

“I thank the Presiding Officer. Mr. President, first of all, look at what the resolution says. When you read the resolution, it says: Congress should investigate the actions taken by President Obama and his administration that led to the unlawful transfer of such detainees. So when my friend says it doesn't prejudge that it was unlawful, by its very terms it says ``investigate the actions taken by President Obama that led to the unlawful transfer of such detainees.'' That is what the resolution says. Secondly, the point that the resolution makes no reference to article II--my friend says that, and he is accurate in that regard. That is the problem. What is missing is a reference to what the President was advised he could do--which is act under his article II powers--and what the President said he would do when he signed this bill. Third, the fact that we were notified of the bin Laden capture--I don't know how many of us were notified, but it certainly wasn't 30 days before he was captured, if it was at all. That is the issue here-- not whether the President should have notified--by the way, I think he could have done a better job of notifying Congress. That is not the question. The question is whether he acted illegally, as the resolution says he did, because he didn't follow the 30-day notice requirement, which, in his judgment and I think a lot of other people's judgment, including mine, would have jeopardized the life of an American citizen.…”