Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19217450 (211651ZJUL23) Notable: Rand Paul’s constitutional war amendment fails: ‘It should be an easy vote to affirm the Constitution’
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Rand Paul’s constitutional war amendment fails: ‘It should be an easy vote to affirm the Constitution’
based-politics.com/2023/07/19/rand-pauls-constitutional-war-amendment-fails-it-should-be-an-easy-vote-to-affirm-the-constitution
July 20, 2023
Jack Hunter
July 19, 2023
On Wednesday, the Senate voted on an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would have made clear that only Congress can declare war despite Article 5 of the NATO agreement.
Article 5 says that an attack on any NATO nation means every member country must join to defend it.
Paul wanted to clarify that NATO doesn’t supercede Congress’s constitutional war powers.
The amendment needed 60 votes to pass. It was defeated in a final vote of 83 to 16.
“Article 5 does not supersede Congress’s responsibility to declare war,” Paul said on the Senate floor on Wednesday.
He added “I think it should be an easy vote to affirm the Constitution. To vote against affirming the Constitution actually places doubt in the Constitution.”
The 16 who voted with Paul for his amendment, all Republicans, were Sens. Mike Braun, Ted Cruz, Steve Daines, Bill Hagerty, Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson, John Kennedy, James Lankford, Mike Lee, Cynthia Lummis, Roger Marshall, Marco Rubio, Eric Schmitt, Tommy Tuberville, and J.D. Vance.
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