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On the recordJanuary 15, 2020
Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I rise in support of the resolutions presented by my friends from California, Congresswoman Lee and Congressman Khanna. They are long overdue. The actions of this President over the last few weeks are an escalation of the reckless, arrogant, and ignorant foreign policy of this White House, if you can even call these hasty decisions a policy. The President's actions lack a coherent strategy. He lacks an understanding of history, and he lacks the foresight to see the consequences of his actions. Last week, the House and the Senate received briefings that failed to answer our questions about the basic facts behind the decision to kill Major General Qasem Soleimani. Republican Senators themselves said the briefing was so poorly presented that they left more opposed to the President's actions than before they were briefed. In other words, the more we learn about this debacle, the less faith anyone has in the White House's ability to make these decisions. Some of the questions asked by Members of Congress in that briefing went unanswered for so-called security reasons. Yet they were later addressed in interviews and press conferences by members of the administration as they tried to cover for the President's lies and obfuscations.…
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Bonnie Watson Coleman
Democratic · New Jersey

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