Rep. Lloyd Doggett Floor Speech on Syria Resolution

September 17, 2014 

ISIS’s barbarity deserves a forceful response.  But rejecting the amendment to trainthe Syrian rebelsin 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.