Rep. Lloyd Doggett Floor Speech on Syria Resolution

September 17, 2014

ISIS’s barbarity deserves a forceful response. But rejecting the amendment to train the Syrian rebels in Saudi Arabia as I urged today on the House floor, here, does not mean doing nothing. The President already has the necessary authority to take out those who murder Americans, to launch a rescue mission, as he attempted, and to prevent an imminent massacre as he did with the Yazidis.