Brian Mast: “Mr. Speaker, I am going to respond to some of these comments as well. My colleague has said things that we agree on…”

“Mr. Speaker, I am going to respond to some of these comments as well. My colleague has said things that we agree on: Iran is a bad actor, and Iran is a state sponsor of terror. He said that there is no dispute about these things. My colleague has also said that he will vote for the upcoming War Powers Resolution. There is not a resolution that is coming before us that gives the President any authority or authorizes the military to defend the United States of America in any way, shape, or form against that threat that there is no dispute about, that bad actor, as it was characterized, that state sponsor of terror that everybody agrees on. There is no War Powers Resolution coming that says: Go out there, and under these parameters, defend the United States of America. President Trump is utilizing his Article II authority, his constitutional Article II authority, to defend the United States of America against that imminent threat that we agree upon. What my colleagues ask is that the President do nothing to defend the United States of America.”