More than 100 lawmakers ask Obama to seek congressional approval on Syria strikes

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It's looking more and more like Obama is planning on having the strikes happen without getting any type of congressional authorization or approval, probably most likely because he would lose the vote like it looks like is happening in the UK right now which may end up causing a delay in the attack until early next week. In any case I was reading this article and noticed my congressman wasn't on the list of people that signed a letter urging Obama to come to congress to get approval before any action is made. I know this may all be for show but we should still pressure our lawmakers to at the very least speak out in some way even if it is limited that the process is not being followed and the office of the President is acting on it's own without hearing the voice of the people.

After having read this article I sent a letter to my congressman urging him to stop being silent on this issue and step up and demand that congress be involved in the process as it should be by law. If your congressman is not listed here either, you may want to consider doing the same.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...seek-congressional-approval-on-syria-strikes/

More than 100 House lawmakers — at least 98 Republicans and 18 Democrats — have signed on to a letter formally requesting that President Obama seek congressional approval for any military response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

The letter, first written by Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Va.), suggests that failure to seek congressional authorization for military strikes would be unconstitutional. (Read more about the letter in this previous Post Politics report.)

“I’m grateful and encouraged by the strong, bipartisan support this letter has received,” Rigell said in a statement Wednesday. “It’s a clear indication that this issue is not personal to the president, but rather represents common ground in Congress and a deep respect for the Constitution.”

The request by hundreds of lawmakers came as House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) also formally requested in a letter that Obama “provide a clear, unambiguous explanation of how military action — which is a means, not a policy — will secure U.S. objectives and how it fits into your overall policy” regarding the situation in Syria.

A list of the co-signers, as provided by Rigell’s office, appears below. Members whose names appear in italics are Democrats:

Rep. Scott Rigell (VA-02)

Rep. Matt Salmon (AZ-05)

Rep. Mo Brooks (AL-05)

Rep. Scott Garrett (NJ-05)

Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-04)

Rep. Tom Marino (PA-10)

Rep. Dan Benishek (MI-01)

Rep. Tom Rooney (FL-17)

Rep. Steve Pearce (NM-02)

Rep. Tim Griffin (AR-02)

Rep. Justin Amash (MI-03)

Rep. Raul Labrador (ID-01)

Rep. Joseph Pitts (PA-16)

Rep. Trent Franks (AZ-08)

Rep. John Campbell (CA-45)

Rep. Paul Gosar (AZ-04)

Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (GA-03)

Rep. Joe Wilson (SC-02)

Rep. Charles Boustany (LA-03)

Rep. Tom Cole (OK-04)

Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01)

Rep. Austin Scott (GA-08)

Rep. Bill Posey (FL-08)

Rep. Randy Forbes (VA-04)

Rep. Phil Gingrey (GA-11)

Rep. David Roe (TN-01)

Rep. Mark Sanford (SC-01)

Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (TN-02)

Rep. Reid Ribble (WI-08)

Rep. James Lankford (OK-05)

Rep. Bill Cassidy (LA-06)

Rep. Stephen Fincher (TN-08)

Rep. Trey Radel (FL-19)

Rep. Chris Stewart (UT-02)

Rep. Lynn Jenkins (KS-02)

Rep. Jeff Duncan (SC-03)

Rep. David McKinley (WV-01)

Rep. Gus Bilirakis (FL-12)

Rep. Joseph Heck (NV-03)

Rep. Dennis Ross (FL-15)

Rep. Billy Long (MO-07)

Rep. Randy Hultgren (IL-14)

Rep. Steven Palazzo (MS-04)

Rep. Kevin Yoder (KS-03)

Rep. Doug Collins (GA-09)

Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick (PA-08)

Rep. Beto O’Rourke (TX-16)

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA-19)

Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)

Rep. Kurt Schrader (OR-5)

Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12)

Rep. William Enyart (IL-12)

Rep. Timothy Walz (MN-01)

Rep. Christopher Gibson (NY-19)

Rep. Trey Gowdy (SC-04)

Rep. Frank Wolf (VA-10)

Rep. Michael Capuano (MA-07)

Rep. Michael Simpson (ID-02)

Rep. Michael McCaul (TX-10)

Rep. Thomas E. Petri (WI-06)

Rep. Robert Pittenger (NC-09)

Rep. Walter Jones (NC-03)

Rep. Tom Latham (IA-03)

Rep. Richard Nolan (MN-08)

Rep. Jim McDermott (WA-07)

Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (MI-11)

Rep. Mike Coffman (CO-06)

Rep. Sean Duffy (WI-07)

Rep. Bruce Braley (IA-01)

Rep. Morgan Griffith (VA-09)

Rep. Brad Wenstrup (OH-02)

Rep. Mark Amodei (NV-02)

Rep. Roger Williams (TX-25)

Rep. Doug LaMalfa (CA-01)

Rep. Brett Guthrie (KY-02)

Rep. Sam Farr (CA-20)

Rep. Steve Daines (MT-At Large)

Rep. Robert Hurt (VA-05)

Rep. Steve Southerland, II (FL-2)

Rep. Michele Bachmann (MN-06)

Rep. Ralph Hall (TX-04)

Rep. Randy Neugebauer (TX-19)

Rep. Robert Wittman (VA-01)

Rep. Anna Eshoo (CA-18)

Rep. David Schweikert (AZ-06)

Rep. Todd Rokita (IN-4)

Rep. David Loebsack (IA-02)

Rep. Scott Tipton (CO-03)

Rep. Frank LoBiondo (NJ-02)

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (OR-03)

Rep. Sam Johnson (TX-03)

Rep. Tom Price (GA-06)

Rep. Mark Meadows (NC-11)

Rep. Paul Broun (GA-10)

Rep. Markwayne Mullin (OK-02)

Rep. Steve Stockman (TX-36)

Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (WI-05)

Rep. Chris Collins (NY-27)

Rep. Diane Black (TN-06)

Rep. Daniel Webster (FL-10)

Rep. Peter Welch (VT)

Rep. Lou Barletta (PA-11)

Rep. Tim Murphy (PA-18)

Rep. Gregg Harper (MS-03)

Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-04)

Rep. Ted S. Yoho (FL-03)

Rep. Bill Flores (TX-17)

Rep. Michael Burgess (TX-26)

Rep. Jim Matheson (UT-04)

Rep. Cory Gardner (CO-04)

Rep. Alan Nunnelee (MS-01)

Rep. Jason Smith (MO-08)

Rep. Charles Fleischmann (TN-03)

Rep. Tim Walberg (MI-07)

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (TN-07)

Rep. Collin Peterson (MN-7)
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That's odd, I see Michelle Bachmann on that list but I don't see Massie, not that I don't trust him (he already expressed his views to Ben Swann in an interview). Just odd that's he's not on the list.
 
twomp said:
That's odd, I see Michelle Bachmann on that list but I don't see Massie, not that I don't trust him (he already expressed his views to Ben Swann in an interview). Just odd that's he's not on the list.
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Not sure why he has not signed on yet.
 
Hmm this is interesting was just looking at Rigell's page on the house.gov website and noticed he re-posted a story from Prison Planet, isn't that Alex Jones?

http://rigell.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=347015

As far as Amash not signing yet, he may not even know the letter exists, it seems this is all moving really fast so even if his office has been contacted he himself may not know yet as well as some other congressmen.
 
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If these guys really had any determination, they would call for the immediate arrest and detention of Obama and his cabinet for crimes against the constitution. In my perfect world imagination, Mace Windu would cart Obama's ass off to a federal prison . . . if only :(.
 
AngryCanadian said:
John McCain and Rand not on the list? thats a surprise.
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Yea I can't believe 2 Senators haven't signed onto a letter intended for members in the House of Representatives. It is truly a shocking revelation and we can thank you for pointing it out. So, Thank You...
 
tod evans said:
Ask?

WTF!

War requires a declaration by congress, these mealy mouthed fucking lawyers in suits don't ask the prez to do his job according to the constitution they swore to uphold, in order to represent me they'll demand it!
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Yeah, but figure they only got ~100 signers so far on this weak language, and they really need 218. Tighten the language and we might be down to 50. Pisses me off too but it is what it is. If I were working strategy I'd prepare both, an ask and a demand. Run the ask up the flagpole and try to get +218 wait for O-bummer to ignore it and then run the demand up the flagpole, where it is more likely to get the 218 now that the ask was ignored.
 
GunnyFreedom said:
Yeah, but figure they only got ~100 signers so far on this weak language, and they really need 218. Tighten the language and we might be down to 50. Pisses me off too but it is what it is. If I were working strategy I'd prepare both, an ask and a demand. Run the ask up the flagpole and try to get +218 wait for O-bummer to ignore it and then run the demand up the flagpole, where it is more likely to get the 218 now that the ask was ignored.
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They're like a bunch of little girls when they're dealing with each other but when it comes to dealing with one of us they'll send in the troops in APC's with machine guns.

I am not, and haven't been, represented in DC my entire life......:(:mad:
 
Wow, asking. What strength of character and conviction. What machismo!

Strong bipartisan support? Is Rigell a complete wanking idiot?

Not impressed.

When the War Powers act is repealed I will begin to be impressed in a favorable direction.

When Obama is impeached I will be marginally more impressed.

When he is tried for treason, convicted, and publicly hung from a tree on the White House grounds, televised for the world to see, then I will say we have men of minimally sound fabric doing their jobs in Congress.

Until then, this is all bullshit - an attempt by corrupt girly-men to make a hopelessly unconvincing show of sand to their constituents, many of whom probably are just about stupid enough to buy it.
 
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orenbus said:
As far as Amash not signing yet, he may not even know the letter exists, it seems this is all moving really fast so even if his office has been contacted he himself may not know yet as well as some other congressmen.
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Amash is on the list at the link in the OP. 11th name on the completely un-ordered list. I mean, they could have at least arranged them by state.
 
tod evans said:
Ask?

WTF!

War requires a declaration by congress, these mealy mouthed fucking lawyers in suits don't ask the prez to do his job according to the constitution they swore to uphold, in order to represent me they'll demand it!
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Exactly! How about instead of asking, they notify Obama that any acts of war on his own will result in an impeachment proceeding?
 
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I don't watch or listen to "The-Newz", so is anybody else asking demurely if the-prez will please abide by the oath he took, or is this issue swept under the rug already?
 
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