[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 43 (Monday, March 9, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S910]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                  Iran

  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, it has been a week--more than a week--
since Donald Trump began his war with Iran without strategy, without an 
endgame, and with very little support from the American people.
  Seven U.S. servicemembers have now been killed in the Middle East, 
one of them was killed in Saudi Arabia this weekend.
  We also mourn the death of MAJ Sorffly Davius, a New York Police 
Department officer from Queens, who was deployed as a member of the 
42nd Infantry Division of the U.S. National Guard. He died on Friday at 
a U.S. base in Kuwait. Major Davius was the rare kind of public 
servant, keeping New Yorkers safe here at home as a police officer and 
keeping Americans safe abroad as a soldier.
  The Senate prays for all our servicemembers who have died since the 
start of the war. We pray for their families. And, as we pray, many of 
us also ask: One week into this conflict, what are the goals of this 
war? What does victory even look like?
  We don't know. Donald Trump is making it up as he goes along. It is 
almost as if he wakes up each morning and decides right then and there 
what the strategy for the day is. Donald Trump and his administration 
owe the American people an explanation.
  Secretary Rubio, Secretary Hegseth, and other senior officials must 
come to the Senate for public hearings and testify under oath as to why 
our troops are once again fighting and dying in the Middle East. The 
American people deserve answers. The Senate must hold public hearings--
public hearings--with Cabinet Secretaries to get answers.