Alan Grayson: “But let me give somebody else a chance. Mr. Red, is there any reason why Brazil can do it and the United States can't?”

This amendment is nearly identical to an amendment that passed by voice vote last year. I hope we will agree on its passage again this year.

the bill, as written, indicates that the joint resolution itself is enough to rescind the President's action when, in fact, in order to make it proper, under the Presentment Clause, you would need a joint resolution and the President's…

When I look at these resolutions regarding Abkhazia, South Ossetia, the bill regarding the Ukraine and the Crimea, what is missing to me is a sense of respect for the wishes of the people involved.

This amendment is identical to other amendments that have been inserted by voice vote into every appropriations bill considered under an open rule during the 113th and 114th Congresses. The amendment simply expands the list of parties with…