[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4637]
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SA 2277. Mr. PAUL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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 end of subtitle F of title XII, insert the
following:
SEC. 1291. SENSE OF CONGRESS WITH RESPECT TO DECLARATIONS OF
WAR.
It is the sense of Congress that Article 5 of the North
Atlantic Treaty, done at Washington, DC, April 4, 1949, does
not supersede the constitutional requirement that Congress
declare war before the United States engages in war.
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