“I've never heard of someone negotiating with themselves and making a plea bargain with themselves.
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“This committee will not let Senate Democrats block paychecks for our border patrol and other law enforcement. We will not let them shut down inspections for fentanyl, weapons or nuclear material. And we will not stand idly by while they defund the interdiction of child sex trafficking across the border.
“I'm not for adding more debt, I think adding more [debt] makes us less safe. I think the war should come to a conclusion as soon as possible.
“The War Powers Act means something. The president cannot simply declare the war over by pointing to a fragile ceasefire while continuing to project military force in the region. Congress must vote.
“I've been consistent: presidents of both parties need congressional authorization before taking the country into military or paramilitary confrontation. The Cuba blockade is no exception.
“Congress ought to fund border security but we should be good stewards of the taxpayer dollars and fully pay for the $70 billion to secure our borders.
“I don't think we should be looking at the White House piecemeal. Today is the ballroom. Tomorrow, it could be some modifications to — I guess, it's the colonnade between the main building and the West Wing. The day after that, it could be some addition to the West Wing.
“The congressional leadership, resigned to their own irrelevance, will gladly hand the president the power to initiate war in exchange for plausible deniability. Our Founding Fathers thought that war happened too often, war should be the last resort, and that is why we should have Congress vote on it first. It's very difficult after it starts to have a debate over this — once the soldiers are in the field, it's very hard.
“There is this sticking point of the Constitution that we won't let presidents bomb countries just when they feel like it. They're supposed to ask the people, through the Congress, for permission.
“I think shooting unarmed people floundering in the water, clinging to wreckage, is not who we are as a people.
“What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial. Did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation?