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Jim McGovern: “Under the Constitution, we have a responsibility to declare…”

Featuring: Jim McGovern, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 2nd Congressional District

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Trump is Sleepwalking America into a WAR with Venezuela

Published | Video Starts at 50:34

And then we go to war, and it becomes a catastrophe. And then they say, well, I never voted for a war. Oh, I didn't do that. That's not me. Well, you know, Under the Constitution, we have a responsibility to declare war. We have a responsibility to debate war. And quite frankly, this Congress, given what's going on in Venezuela, ought to be doing more oversight and ought to be debating this issue. (50:34–50:39)

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Asserts that the U.S. Constitution mandates Congress to declare war.

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