U.S. Reps. Walter Jones, R-N.C., and Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., along
with retired senior defense intelligence officer Col. Walter P. Lang and
the Veterans for Peace today said Congress must be consulted before
Barack Obama would send American troops into Syria.
At a press conference, Jones discussed his resolution to oppose American involvement in Syria without first consulting Congress.
His resolution, H.Con. Res. 107, expresses “the sense of Congress that the use of offensive military force by a president without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress constitutes an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor under article II, section 4 of the Constitution.”
Jones was responding to the growing potential for direct American involvement in Syria to support the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad.
Just as he was one of the few Republicans opposed to the war in Iraq, Jones again expressed his opposition to a war that would be conducted without the approval of Congress.
It is Congress, after all, that the Constitution entrusts to make a decision regarding war, he said.
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