{"id":70658,"date":"2017-04-07T00:12:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T04:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70658"},"modified":"2017-04-07T00:13:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T04:13:41","slug":"rand-paul-trump-needs-congress-to-authorize-military-action-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70658","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul: Trump needs Congress to authorize military action in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->BY BROOKE SEIPEL<br \/>\nThe Hill<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&amp;widgetId=1&amp;trackingGroup=69016&amp;playlistId=19132&amp;siteSection=thehill2300_nws_pol_sec&amp;videoId=32232764\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sen. <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/rand-paul\" data-nid=\"188293\">Rand Paul<\/a><\/span> (R-Ky.) asserted Thursday night that President Trump needs congressional authorization for military action in Syria after Trump ordered an airstrike in the country following a deadly chemical attack earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we all condemn the atrocities in Syria, the United States was not attacked,&#8221; Paul said in a statement shortly after reports that the U.S. had launched more than 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles against an airfield in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The President needs congressional authorization for military action as required by the Constitution, and I call on him to come to Congress for a proper debate,&#8221; Paul said. &#8220;Our prior interventions in this region have done nothing to make us safer, and Syria will be no different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">While we all condemn the atrocities in Syria, the United States was not attacked.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/850161484013481984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The President needs Congressional authorization for military action as required by the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/850161531094523906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our prior interventions in this region have done nothing to make us safer and Syria will be no different.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/850161856589246464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Paul expressed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/04\/06\/politics\/kfile-rand-paul-syria-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">similar sentiments<\/a>\u00a0earlier Thursday amid reports that the Trump administration was considering a strike. Earlier this week, President Bashar Assad&#8217;s forces reportedly used chemical weapons against opponents in Syria&#8217;s years-long civil war.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Democrats on Thursday night also\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/327733-us-lawmakers-urge-caution-after-us-attack-on-syrian-military\" target=\"_blank\">urged caution<\/a>\u00a0after the Trump administration struck at an airfield near the city of Homs, where it said a gas attack originated earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tedlieu\/status\/850162860743372800\" target=\"_blank\">sided<\/a>\u00a0with Paul on Twitter, saying that Trump &#8220;can use military force in defense of US. But attacking\u00a0#Assad\u00a0regime requires congressional approval.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) also called the strike &#8220;an act of war&#8221; on Twitter,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RepBarbaraLee\/status\/850164891482718212\" target=\"_blank\">saying<\/a>\u00a0that &#8220;Congress needs to come back into session &amp; hold a debate. Anything less is an abdication of our responsibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/327736-rand-paul-trump-needed-congressional-authorization-for-military\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/327736-rand-paul-trump-needed-congressional-authorization-for-military<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}