Brian Mast: “I believe it is important for us as a Nation to go through our proper channels for something so weighty as this…”

There are not U.S. combat forces conducting operations or engaged in hostilities in Lebanon.

To belittle this mission is to belittle and demean the very service these members who gave their lives.

The gangs will essentially block the streets with rubble, with debris, they'll dig giant ditches in the road, and so these military and police units can't traverse.

The updated measure is "not quite as ridiculous this time as it was the last time … but still significantly ridiculous."