Cord Byrd: “The American people are just now awakening to the fact that the Senate and the House are about to pass a resolution that…”

“The American people are just now awakening to the fact that the Senate and the House are about to pass a resolution that turns the power of the people, as measured by their elected representatives in Congress, over to a Commander in Chief--the power to determine when to go to war, the power to declare war. They are just now becoming awake to that fact. The American people are just now beginning to focus on this. They have not been focused on this. They have not been focused on this. And they are just now beginning to. Also, the article that the Senator raises, from today's newspaper, indicates there are many things that have a bearing upon this question that are just now coming to the surface. Organizations, persons, people with expertise, scientists, and so on, are just now beginning to focus, and their story is just now beginning to get through. I think we owe it to ourselves. Why would we want to deny ourselves here in Congress the opportunity to have more facts, the opportunity to study this matter more seriously, the opportunity to debate it, the opportunity to draw up amendments?”