Mr. Speaker. as it stands today. the 113th Congress will go down in history as the Congress of abandoned authority. With little exception. this Congress has failed to address the issues the American people sent us here to take on: tax reform. immigration. transportation infrastructure. climate change. This Congress has shown little progress. and in so doing. we have ceded more and more of our power as a legislature to the executive. Nowhere has our abandoned authority inflicted greater harm on Congress as an institution than our abdication of leadership in the fight against ISIS. The Constitution gives Congress. and Congress alone. the power to declare war.
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