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Rep. Seth Moulton says he can relate to the position that President Donald Trump was in ahead of his decision to order the killing of Iran’s top military leader, Qassem Soleimani.
“We get it — he’s a terrible, evil man,” Moulton told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell in an interview Monday night. “He killed a lot of Americans. I saw friends die from Iranian weapons.”
The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, but after authorizing military force against Al Qaeda in 2001 and Saddam Hussein in 2002, lawmakers have been happy to cede all decisions to the White House on whether U.S. troops live or die.
Now, after an airstrike that killed Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, it's worth asking whether Congress will step in for oversight or sit back and watch as a new war festers in the Middle East.
SALEM — Congressman Seth Moulton said Friday that the killing of Iran’s top military official in a drone missile strike ordered by President Donald Trump has created an “incredibly dangerous” situation.
Gen. Qassem Soleimani, believed to be the second most powerful man in Iran, was one of at least three Iranian officials killed in the drone missile strike, the Pentagon announced late Thursday. Soleimani was in a convoy leaving Baghdad International Airport when the car he was in was struck by a missile.
Response to the strike has been split largely along political lines.
Of the most feared terrorist leaders the United States has hunted and killed this century—from Osama bin Laden to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—no death ever had the significance of the one America just dealt. The killing of Iran’s Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, in a U.S. strike yesterday in Baghdad wasn’t just the targeted assassination of a state military leader. It marked a dangerous new chapter in a roiling region Soleimani has helped shape for more than a decade, and moved the U.S. and Iran’s cycle of proxy violence and sabotage closer to outright war.
SALEM, Mass. — Following reports that Qasem Soleimani has been killed, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) issued the following statement:
Bill that targets producers of synthetic opioids, and plan to provide mental health check ups to active duty service members included in the National Defense Authorization Act
WASHINGTON — Tomorrow, at approximately 7:20 pm, President Trump will sign the National Defense Authorization Act into law at a ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base. The defense bill includes the text of Rep. Seth Moulton’s Fentanyl Sanctions Act, a bill he co-led with Rep.
NORTH SHORE — U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton has issued a statement explaining why he voted to impeach President Donald J. Trump.
It is just the third impeachment voted by the House of Representatives in U.S. history.
The votes were largely along party lines. However, three Democrats voted against the measure, and presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard effectively abstained by voting present.
No Republicans supported impeachment.
Washington (CNN)Nancy Pelosi was irritated.
The House Judiciary Committee was about to publicly debate articles of impeachment against the President, but on December 11, behind closed doors, the House speaker had a list of grievances to air against her members.
WASHINGTON — Today, Representative Seth Moulton (D-MA) and a majority of the House of Representatives voted to impeach the President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump. Moulton made the following statement:
SALEM — On a "momentous day" when a divided Congress was poised to impeach the president for only the third time in U.S. history, U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton held a Facebook town hall Wednesday morning to say he planned to vote "yes" on the two articles before the House of Representatives.
"I do plan to vote 'yes' on both articles of impeachment as I've described earlier," said the Salem Democrat..