Walter B. Jones: “I want to thank Mr. Paul for so many years coming down to the floor to defend the Constitution of the United States. The…”

“I want to thank Mr. Paul for so many years coming down to the floor to defend the Constitution of the United States. The United States Constitution, article I, Section 8, clause 11, vests in the Congress the exclusive power to declare war. Many of us in the past few days have put in a resolution, H.J. Resolution 14, to say that the President should not go into and bomb Iran unless he comes to the Congress so that the Congress can meet its constitutional responsibility. James Madison said, `` . . . The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature . . . the Executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.'' I want to thank you, Ron Paul, for always being a spokesman and a protector of the Constitution.”