Ted Poe: “Every Member of this body, every elected official in the United States, every member of our military takes an oath to…”

“Every Member of this body, every elected official in the United States, every member of our military takes an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. We do not take an oath to the President of the United States. The war in Libya is the President's war. The Constitution requires that Congress declare war. The War Powers declaration requires that Congress be authorized and notified if the President leads us into war. This has not occurred. The President's war in the name of humanity, although it may be a good idea in the moral sense and Qadhafi is a rotten person, violates the Constitution of the United States. It violates statutory law that we have passed. It is incumbent upon this body to stop the war in Libya. That is the President's war and not the war of the people of the United States. ____________________”