Tim Kaine
speaker
12 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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There's no part of the Constitution that's more important than the Article I provisions making plain that the United States should not be at war without a vote of Congress.
And yet the news of the day suggests that we are potentially on the verge of a war with Iran today.
When I was elected to the Senate in 2012, having served as a governor from 2006 to 2010 during a tremendous upsurge in the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, I visited our troops multiple times in the Green Zone in Baghdad and in Afghanistan.
I went to the deployments and the homecomings.
I went to the wakes and the funerals.
And I told myself when I came to the Senate that if I ever had the chance to stop this nation from getting into an unnecessary war, I would do everything I could
to stop us from getting into an unnecessary war.
I happen to believe that the United States engaging in a war against Iran, a third war in the Middle East since 2001, would be a catastrophic blunder for this country.
I think there are some in this body who have a different point of view than me on that point, but I think we should all be able to agree
that the fundamental constitutional principle that says we shouldn't be in a war if Congress doesn't have the guts to debate it and vote on it, we should all, having taken an oath to the Constitution,
at least support the principle that war is something that should be for Congress to declare.
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