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00:00The yeas are 52, the nays are 47, the motion is agreed to.
00:09The joint resolution will be placed on the calendar.
00:15Are we in a quorum call?
00:17Here is something I can guarantee you.
00:20No one has ever regretted, no one has ever regretted a vote that just says,
00:28Mr. President, before you send our sons and daughters to war, come to Congress.
00:36That is a vote that no one has ever regretted and no one will ever regret.
00:43There isn't anybody that has any information that the President is using armed forces against Venezuela.
00:54He did for about 47 minutes this last weekend, but he is not in the process of doing this.
01:01And the resolution says that he should stop it.
01:04He's not doing it.
01:05Now if the resolution were drawn to say, President, you can't do this anymore,
01:10that would actually have some effect or attempt to have some effect.
01:14It would be unconstitutional, unenforceable.
01:17But to tell him to not do something or to stop doing something he's not doing is nonsense.
01:23The effect of this is to slap the President of the United States in the face.
01:28That is the only effect that this vote can have.
01:31It can have no practical effect because it's trying to stop something that isn't going on.
01:36I recognize the Democrat leader.
01:43How can the American people watch this and not just groan and grimace and ache and fear
01:52when we try to do this kind of nation, when America has tried to do this kind of nation building,
02:00this kind of regime replacement in the past?
02:06It's led to the American people paying the price in treasure and in blood.
02:13Joint resolutions direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela
02:19that have been...
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