Thomas Massey

And then even then you have to come to Congress and get authorization pretty soon thereafter.

So I've introduced Iran war powers resolution.

I put it in the hopper this summer when things were heating up.

Who could have foreseen we would do this in anticipation of something like this.

So it may be time to call that to the floor and force a vote on it.

Now, what happens inevitably is you have people who don't want to vote for it looking for any excuse to vote against it.

And they'll say, well, we're not actually there right now.

So this is premature, Congressman Nassi.

That's what I heard on the Venezuelan War Powers Resolution that we did in December.

It's just the boats.

We don't have boots on the ground.

And so we're bringing that one back up for a vote here very soon, the Venezuela War Powers Resolution, because they can't say it's premature now.

Now, they may say, oh, we're already done.

We're not going to do any more there.

AUMF.

Well, another good point, though.

Both Iraq wars and the engagement in Afghanistan, those were all voted on by Congress.

Those were all authorized by Congress.

So even though those were AUMFs and not declarations of war, they should have been declarations of war, limited in scope and geography.

They were not.