Mark Warner: “I do so with a heavy conscience, because I have no better friend, nor a man I respect more, than my good friend, the…”

“I do so with a heavy conscience, because I have no better friend, nor a man I respect more, than my good friend, the Senator from Arizona. I want to ask both of you, on the condition you answer on your time, a very simple question: What does this resolution give the President of the United States that the Constitution has not clearly reposed in this President and in every other President since the beginning of this great Republic? I ask that question because to vote otherwise would possibly, if this were to carry, in my judgment, send a hollow message not only to the United States but across the world. He has the authority under the Constitution to do precisely what you state in here. I ask simply: What does this confer on the President that the Constitution has not already conferred?”