Political Quotes

“I rise today to oppose the resolution that my Democrat friends brought here to the floor. It is very short--only a few pages long--but the operative part of it is only 18 words. It is on page 3. It says: Congress hereby directs the President to remove the United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Iran. Real simple--they are telling the President he must stop and remove our troops from the conflict that we are currently involved in. It is important to remember what we are doing here and what the Democrats are trying to do here. I am going to talk in two different parts. One is of the War Powers Act and the Constitution. We have all sat through hundreds of hours of argument on this. So I am not going to spend a lot of time on it. The third part is how we got here, where we are, and where we are going, which is a little more interesting, I think. In any event, as far as the War Powers Act, it was enacted in 1973 by Congress. It was designed to try to cut into the constitutional powers of the President under article II of the Constitution. Every single President--every one of them since then, Democrat and Republican--has refused to accept this as constitutional, the War Powers Act. They have always said that it infringes on the President's article II constitutional authorities to defend the American people and to complete the oath they have taken to defend the country.”