[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 8674-8675]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       LIBYA: THE PRESIDENT'S WAR

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, every Member of this body, every 
elected official in the United States, every member of our military 
takes an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United 
States of America. We do not take an oath to the President of the 
United States.
  The war in Libya is the President's war. The Constitution requires 
that Congress declare war. The War Powers declaration requires that 
Congress be authorized and notified if the President leads us into war. 
This has not occurred. The President's war in the

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name of humanity, although it may be a good idea in the moral sense and 
Qadhafi is a rotten person, violates the Constitution of the United 
States. It violates statutory law that we have passed.
  It is incumbent upon this body to stop the war in Libya. That is the 
President's war and not the war of the people of the United States.

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