Resolution, to Remove United States Armed Forces From Hostilities with Iran

Floor Speech

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Mr. MAGAZINER. Mr. Speaker, the American people are tired of morally bankrupt politicians who are always saying that there is not enough money for healthcare, there is not enough money for education, and there is not enough money for housing but who are willing to spend more than $1 billion a day on an unnecessary war of choice. It is a war that has taken the lives of 13 American servicemembers and that has taken the lives of over 100 elementary school children, who were bombed in their school. Horrific. It is a war that has raised gas prices, home heating oil prices, and fertilizer prices on the American people.

Now, that may not matter in Mar-a-Lago, where everything looks good. Yet, to the average working American, they don't know why they are being asked to pay for this unnecessary war, and neither do any of us.

The administration has not given us any evidence--and I have gone to every briefing, classified briefings and otherwise--any evidence that Iran was plotting an imminent threat against the United States, an imminent attack, any evidence that they were close to getting a nuclear weapon--none.

This is an unnecessary war, a costly war. We have an opportunity to end it today, and I urge my colleagues to do that.

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