Mind. Created by cable, in 1979, cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. The house and Senate Democrats spoke with reporters about u. S. iran tensions including the war powers act legislation thats being debated in the house today. Thank you all for being here. And let me thank all of my colleagues who are here with me this morning. And for joining together for this enormously important piece of legislation. A bill which would prevent any funds from being used for a war with iran without congressional approval. And the senate, this is being cosponsored by harris, bloomen thal and other, and im very pleased that the house leadership has committed to seeing that congressman conyers similar bill and congresswoman lees appeal of the 2002 iraq umf both come up for votes an i look forward to working with them, to get our legislation passed in the senate. When i look back upon american history, i remember the two most signi
Approval. In the senate it is being cosponsored by senators. Let me also say that i am also pleased that the house leadership has committed to andng that a similar bill the repeal of another bill are coming up for votes and i look forward to working with them to getting our legislation passed in the senate. When i look back upon american two mosti remember the significant foreignpolicy mistakes our country made in the modern era. And those were the war in be at phnom and the war in iraq. Clear, we were led into both of those wars by a series of lies. Vietnamlt, the war in cost us 59,000 american deaths and many others came home wounded in body and spirit. In fact, a whole generation, my generation was devastated by that war. Vietnam, laos,in and cambodia are almost incalculable, they run into the millions of people. In 2002 and 2003 in terms of iraq, we were told over and over again that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass distraction, that he was working with al qaeda, and that we need
I mean, Great Respect for the position. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, senator. Vermont senator and 2020 democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders also held a News Conference earlier today. He spoke to reporters about current u. S. Relations with iran. This is about half an hour. Thank you all for being here. And let me thank all of my colleagues who are here with me this morning. And were joining together for this enormously important piece of legislation. A bill which would prevent any funds from being used for a war with iran without congressional approval. In the senate this bill has been cosponsored by senator schumer, leahy, and others. Let me also say that im very pleased that the house leadership has committed to seeing that congresswoman lees repeal of the 2002 iraq aumf both come up for votes and i look forward to working with them to get our legislation passed in the senate. When i look back upon american history, i remember the two most significant Foreign Policy mista
Where theres darkness, light. Here theres sadness, joy. To be understood as to understand. To be loved as to love. For it is in using that we receive. It is in the pardoning that you are pardoned. And it is in dying that you are born to eternal life. We pray for peace in the world. We pray that our hands and hearts be stretched out in compassion in the service of others. You remind us, whoever wants to be first must take last place. And the be the servant of everyone else. Lord, make us an instrument of your peace. Amen. In the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house her approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The chair will now lead the house in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag f the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and
Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. We have a separate fourth line for folks living in border states, 2027488003 is your number. Invitecannot call, we your comments on social media. cspanwj is our twitter handle and you can post a comment at facebook. Com cspan. Here is how the Washington Times is reporting on all of this. Democrats giveandtake on trump border aid legislation. Five months after labeling the border a manufactured crisis, Speaker Pelosi led democrats to approve 4. 5 billion humanitarian aid package. Democrats took their pound of flesh in the vote, deleting some of the president s priorities such as money for investigators to stop human traffickers and more detention beds for i. C. E. They packed the bill on new rules on how mr. Trump can spend money and conditions migrants face at the border. Here is nancy pelosi on the floor yesterday. [video clip] today we found out the administration is sending children back to a station in clint, texas, where days earlie