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Jason Crow: “Congress needs to retake that constitutional authority where…”

Featuring: Jason Crow, Democratic | U.S. House, Colorado, District 6

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Congressman Jason Crow Discusses War Powers and US-Iran Tensions

Published | Video Starts at 02:07

… spent trillions of dollars on thousands of American lives, lots of US Credibility down the drain. And we all saw how that turned out. So what needs to happen is Congress needs to retake that constitutional authority where only the Congress can declare war. And the reason for that is we are the people who are most accountable to the American people. We go home every weekend. We spend time in our town halls and high school gymnasiums answering questions. (02:07–02:17)

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Asserts that Congress should reclaim its constitutional authority to declare war.

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