Steven Holt: “I thank my friend from California for this amendment, but also for her longstanding work on this issue and related…”

“I thank my friend from California for this amendment, but also for her longstanding work on this issue and related issues. When we hear about this impossible situation which we find ourselves in today in Iraq, with the country clamoring for us to do something, we should be reminded of how we got there. It is not because of something that has expired. It is because of something that still exists. The gentlelady is absolutely right that we should repeal that, repudiate that, and get ourselves on a new track, which requires deliberate attention by the Congress, if we are ever going to use military force, and not a blank check to the administration.”