Sheila Jackson Lee: “As a senior member of the House Committees on the Judiciary and on Homeland Security, as a member serving in this body…”

“As a senior member of the House Committees on the Judiciary and on Homeland Security, as a member serving in this body on September 11, 2001 and throughout the fateful and tragic war in Iraq, and as an original cosponsor, I rise in strong support of the rule governing debate of H. Con. Res. 83, a concurrent resolution directing the President to terminate the engagement of United States Armed Forces in hostilities in or against Iran, as well as the underlying legislation. I thank the gentlelady from Michigan, Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin, for introducing this resolution and Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel for his work on this important resolution. I also thank Speaker Pelosi for taking swift action to afford the House the opportunity to honor its constitutional duty to keep the American people safe by limiting the President from taking further precipitous military actions regarding Iran. We know from bitter and heart-breaking experience the truth that while dangerous and bloody battles are fought by the military, it is the nation that goes to war. And that is why the Framers lodged the awesome power to declare and take the nation to war not in the hands of a single individual, but through Article I, Section, clause 11 in the collective judgment of Congress, the representatives of the American people.…”