Directing the President Pursuant to Section 5(C) of the War Powers Resolution to Remove United States Armed Forces From Lebanon
Floor Speech
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Mrs. RAMIREZ. Mr. Speaker, again, I want to rise to point out the hypocrisy of those who would claim to care about our children while turning a blind eye to the scale of child suffering inflicted by Trump and Netanyahu's unlawful, unaccountable military operations in Lebanon. And, yes, I did say Trump and Netanyahu's military operations.
While Netanyahu may be dropping the bombs, those operations are blessed by Trump, and the bombs are provided courtesy of the United States Government.
Israeli-executed, U.S.-approved strikes have killed more than 3,400 people, including 240 children.
UNICEF reports that 11 Lebanese children are killed or injured every single day.
Over a million civilians have been displaced. Nearly a quarter of Lebanon's entire population does not have enough to eat.
We are watching another catastrophe of U.S. complicity in destruction, displacement, and death unfold.
Trump, Hegseth, and Netanyahu launched an unlawful war in Iran to remain in power and enrich themselves. Let's be clear: Trump, Hegseth, and Netanyahu will keep expanding their war to further consolidate their power and profit and to stay in power.
My colleagues in Congress have enabled their abuses. They have watched children die, whether it is in Palestine, Iran, or Lebanon, and they have shrugged off requests for action because it is complicated.
What is complicated about this? It is not. The President of the United States is waging an unlawful war, aiding and abetting Israel to violate U.S. and international law, and it is making his friends rich and himself richer, all while children are starving. They are suffering, and they are dying. It is not complicated. It is actually grotesque.
Bottom line: Whether it is Lebanon, Gaza, or Iran, the United States and Israel are violating U.S. and international law, and this Congress has failed to stop them.
But impunity cannot and should not be an option. There shouldn't be more excuses, more endless wars, more blank checks for warmongers paid for by the suffering of children.
It is why Representative Tlaib and I introduced the Lebanon War Powers Resolution--to force Congress to vote, assert our constitutional authority, and end the complicity and unlawful military operations and wars.
Let me end by saying this: Let me make sure I look at you, my colleague here on the right. We cannot bomb our way to peace. True safety is not realized at the end of a barrel of a gun, by a bomb, or via choke hold of suppression or oppression.
I urge my colleagues to support this War Powers Resolution, and I also encourage you to join the Block the Bombs Act.
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Mrs. RAMIREZ. It is his time.
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Mrs. RAMIREZ. I want to make sure that we no longer are using our authority, our bombs, our resources to bomb children. That is what I want to do. I want to make sure that money is going to healthcare, housing, education--
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Mrs. RAMIREZ. You are having a different debate here, but let me come back to what the Congresswoman just mentioned, too. If you look at the legislation--
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Mrs. RAMIREZ.--that Congresswoman Tlaib introduced, clearly, pursuant to section 5(c), it shows you that unless--
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