Rep. Gregory Meeks

So all of this is coming to a head right now.

So I...

strongly disagree, and I think that the American people disagree.

The president should be coming to Congress if this is a war that he's trying to get us into.

That's why I do have a bill dealing with a War Powers Act so that it demands that the president comes and talk to Congress and stop trying to work around Congress to avoid us so that we can do our oversight responsibilities in an appropriate way.

Well, I think that we would get him.

We're working, you know, diligent now, talking to other members.

And that's why the speaker refuses to allow the bill on the floor, because he knows if it reaches the floor, he would have a strong bipartisan vote.

And so that's why they try to block it and make rules that will not allow the bill to come to the floor at the appropriate time.

Well, he is.

I mean, look, and there's some reason why the president of the United States, you know, we see that Russia's already killing Ukrainians on a daily basis just about.

Russia is now joining hands with Nicolas Maduro.

And why the president of the United States is not standing strong and making sure that, you know, you talk about using power.

uh you know to to control the situation uh yet he just seems to bow down to the will of russia and whatever russia says and russia can do whatever they want and it's okay with this administration but it's not okay with the american people it's not okay with democrats in the house and the senate and we're going to make sure that we have those voices and i would hope

that some of my Republican colleagues would finally join us and stand with us to hold this president accountable and make sure that we keep the high standards and morals that we have with our European allies and others.

But look, I will tell you generally, in all of the time that I've been in Congress before, before this is done, there is at least with the Intelligence Committee, sometimes with the Armed Services Committee, and sometimes with the Foreign Affairs Committee, and sometimes in a combination thereof, and definitely with both Democrat and Republican leadership in the House,

There is a dialogue and conversation.

They go in the skiff or they go down to the White House and they have a dialogue and they talk and they plan and at least indicate what they intend on doing.

And in this situation, it's just chaos where you have a president who's just running amok doing whatever he wants to do and oftentimes violating the normal states and I believe also violating the rules of law.

Well, that's what we want to do because we know that the policies that the president is putting forth now, for example, with his tariffs, if you spoke to any small business, the cost to the small businesses have steadily increased.