[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 119 (Wednesday, July 12, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2398]
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SA 222. Mr. PAUL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place in title XII, insert the
following:
SEC. __. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENT THAT
CONGRESS DECLARE WAR BEFORE THE UNITED STATES
ENGAGES IN WAR.
It is the sense of Congress that Article 5 of the North
Atlantic Treaty does not supersede the constitutional
requirement that Congress declare war before the United
States engages in war.
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