Russ Feingold: “The determination by the Parliamentarian leaves no doubt that the debate the Senate is engaged in today is an explicit…”

“The determination by the Parliamentarian leaves no doubt that the debate the Senate is engaged in today is an explicit and required exercise in war powers under the law of this country. I am pleased about that. But I do have a few concerns about other aspects of the process that we have undertaken. First, I am concerned about the President's action. I remain concerned that although the President did send a letter to the Congress acknowledging that hostilities had broken out, he did not submit the report required under section 4(a) of the War Powers Resolution. Now, nonetheless, as the Parliamentarian has ruled, the language of the resolution still triggered the War Powers Resolution on its own.”