Removal of the Use of United States Forces for Hostilities Within or Against Venezuela

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Ms. HOULAHAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, it is really devastating to listen to the other side talking about how we somehow were not supposed to be told when boots went on the ground before. Somehow, we were lucky enough, by God's grace, that nothing bad happened to the men and women in the service of our Nation. Yet they actually were injured, seven of them.

The U.S. military is being used against Venezuela without congressional authorization, without transparency, and in ways that appear only designed to benefit the very powerful amongst us--the oil companies--and not the Venezuelan people, and certainly not our American people to whom we are obligated to represent. It is as simple as that.

The American people don't want their sons or their daughters sent into harm's way for their missions to Venezuela or to Greenland or to anywhere else that are undertaken just to enrich corporations and the most wealthy amongst us and cronies of the President's, and to do nothing in the process to lower the cost of living, to help families afford housing or healthcare, or to secure a future for our children.

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Ms. HOULAHAN. Mr. Speaker, I am struck by the fact that we are at a place where we have maligned others in the past for brutish isolationism and for colonial instincts that we have long condemned in our own adversaries.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues on both sides of this aisle to vote ``yes,'' to do our jobs so that we may reaffirm our authority and rein in reckless action.

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