{"id":1563216,"date":"2022-07-20T16:19:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T20:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563216"},"modified":"2022-07-20T16:19:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T20:19:32","slug":"sen-rand-paul-senate-just-rejected-my-attempt-to-reaffirm-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-rand-paul-senate-just-rejected-my-attempt-to-reaffirm-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Rand Paul: \u2018Senate Just Rejected My Attempt to Reaffirm Constitution\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-rand-paul-senate-just-rejected-my-attempt-to-reaffirm-constitution%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563216&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-rand-paul\">Rand Paul<\/a> (R-Ky.) asserted this week that the Senate rejected his bid to \u201creaffirm the Constitution\u201d regarding declarations of war.<\/p>\n<p>Paul proposed an amendment in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), that would emphasize that only Congress can declare war under the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>That amendment was submitted in the context of a bill that affirmed a resolution to allow Sweden and Finland to join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nato\">NATO<\/a>. Paul was the only member to not vote \u201cyes\u201d on the measure, voting \u201cpresent\u201d instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShockingly, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee just rejected my attempt to reaffirm the Constitution. All my amendment said was NATO obligations don\u2019t supersede the constitutional requirement that Congress declare war. How is this controversial?\u201d Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1549475146804727808\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Paul, who has long been critical of the United States\u2019 war efforts abroad, has long attempted to, in his words, return war powers to Congress. In 2017, the Senate voted down Paul\u2019s amendment that would\u00a0force Congress to pass a new law authorizing the United States to wage war against ISIS and other overseas entities.<\/p>\n<p>After the NATO resolution vote Tuesday,\u00a0Menendez said in a statement \u201cas U.S. foreign policy priorities evolve to account for a changing world, what is self-evident is the future of the transatlantic partnership will be even more intertwined and integrated\u201d amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Several months ago, the leaders of Sweden and Finland signaled their nations are seeking to join the 27-nation military alliance after Russia invaded Ukraine. Finland shares a lengthy border with Russia, while Sweden has a maritime border with the country.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow, meanwhile, has warned both Finland and Sweden against joining NATO, saying it will lead to future conflicts. For more than a decade, Russia\u2019s leadership has accused NATO of continuing to expand eastward and said that Ukraine\u2019s close relations with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) asserted this week that the Senate rejected his bid to \u201creaffirm the Constitution\u201d regarding declarations of war. Paul proposed an amendment in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), that would emphasize that only Congress can declare war under the Constitution. That amendment was submitted in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}