[Peace] JFP alert: Pelosi, Hoyer, Smith: Let the House vote on Venezuela War Powers

[Robert Naiman]

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From: Just Foreign Policy <info at justforeignpolicy.org>
Date: Sat, May 11, 2019 at 1:44 PM
Subject: Pelosi, Hoyer, Smith: Let the House vote on Venezuela War Powers
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*Urge Pelosi, Hoyer, Engel and Smith to let the House vote on Venezuela War
Powers.  Sign the petition
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5KW2eFkxuceLPWQsODmgfLpgvbKW2TMT>
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Dear Robert,

Trump has threatened to attack Venezuela without Congressional
authorization, in violation of Article I of the Constitution and the War
Powers Resolution of 1973.

So far, under Nancy Pelosi’s leadership, the “Democratic-controlled” House
of Representatives *hasn’t voted* against Trump’s threats, shirking its
Constitutional responsibility. If the unconstitutional U.S.-Saudi war in
Yemen is prologue, the only way for the House of Representatives to be
heard is to vote.

The House’s failure to act could change any day the House is voting, if
Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Eliot Engel, and Adam Smith would agree.

There’s a bill
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ur2XNABoCd6EjBSphueP8LpgvbKW2TMT>
sponsored
by CPC Vice Chair David Cicilline that re-affirms that the War Powers
Resolution of 1973 is law and that it applies to Venezuela, meaning that
Trump can’t attack Venezuela without getting *specific* Congressional
authorization *beforehand*. This bill was introduced on *February 6*. There
were hearings on it on *March 13*. It was reported out of Engel’s House
Foreign Affairs Committee *25-19*
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EYys2RIhbAt62S2O1Ik847pgvbKW2TMT>
on
*April 9*. This bill has more than 70 co-sponsors
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=72tA%2BbpZR6U8p07V0nLrCLpgvbKW2TMT>
. Adam Smith, chair of the House Armed Services Committee, can green-light
this bill to the floor. Then Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, and Eliot Engel can
put the Venezuela War Powers bill on the floor, any time they want.

Urge Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Eliot Engel, and Adam Smith to let the
House vote on Venezuela War Powers by signing our petition
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=h5H8D1cSX9cX6AyhAtF7krpgvbKW2TMT>
.


Thanks for all you do to help make U.S. foreign policy more just,

Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy

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