[lbo-talk] Updated: 191 Reps., Including 72 Democrats, Call for Debate & Vote Before War With Syria

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Aug 30 14:11:38 PDT 2013


So what is your point?

Carrol


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> Subject: [lbo-talk] Updated: 191 Reps., Including 72 Democrats, Call for
> Debate & Vote Before War With Syria
>
> [includes final list from Lee.]
>
> By my count, at least 191 Members of the House of Representatives,
> including 72 Democrats, have done at least one of the following things in
> the last few days: 1) signed a
> letter<http://lee.house.gov/press-release/congresswoman-lee-pens-syria-
> letter-white-house-calls-congressional-debate>
> initiated
> by California Democrat Barbara Lee saying that there must be Congressional
> debate and vote before war with Syria; 2) signed a
>
letter<http://rigell.house.gov/uploadedfiles/8.29.13_letter_to_potus_with_si
> gnatories.pdf>
> initiated
> by Virginia Republican Scott Rigell saying that there must be
Congressional
> debate and vote before war with Syria; 3) issued a statement calling for a
> Congressional debate and vote before war with Syria. I don't claim that
> this count is exhaustive. If you know of other examples, please share them
> in the comments. [Update: there are now 60 signers of the Lee letter, not
> 54 as currently at the link.]
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/29/1234850/-162-Reps-Including-
> 64-Democrats-Call-for-Debate-Vote-Before-War-With-Syria
>
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> Just Foreign Policy
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