Republican senator Rand Paul said it was ‘not the job of the American government to go looking for monsters around the world’Jeff Merkley, the Democratic senator from Oregon, on Wednesday attempted to pass via unanimous consent a bill prohibiting Donald Trump from taking unauthorized military action in Venezuela.“As we stand here in this chamber, President Trump is preparing to launch a war, a war on Venezuela – without a declaration of war, without a congressional authorization, without a congressional appropriation of funds,” Merkley said. “So I’ve come to the floor to reassert the constitutional role of Congress over this decision of going to war.” Continue reading…
Republican senator Rand Paul said it was ‘not the job of the American government to go looking for monsters around the world’
Jeff Merkley, the Democratic senator from Oregon, on Wednesday attempted to pass via unanimous consent a bill prohibiting Donald Trump from taking unauthorized military action in Venezuela.
“As we stand here in this chamber, President Trump is preparing to launch a war, a war on Venezuela – without a declaration of war, without a congressional authorization, without a congressional appropriation of funds,” Merkley said. “So I’ve come to the floor to reassert the constitutional role of Congress over this decision of going to war.”
