{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-dr-rand-paul-defends-president-removing-troops-syria-introduces-legislation-end-arms-sales/", "Dr. Rand Paul Defends President Removing Troops in Syria, Introduces Legislation to End Arms Sales to Turkey", "2019-10-17", "2019", "2019-10", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", "paul", "https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:\n\nOctober 17, 2019\n\nContact: Press@paul.senate.gov, 202-224-4343\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Shortly before U.S. Vice President Mike Pence announced a ceasefire agreement between the United States and Turkey regarding Syria, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) stood up against efforts to keep America bogged down in endless conflict in the Middle East.\n\nSpeaking on the Senate floor, Dr. Paul objected to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer\u2019s attempt to pass the U.S. House-passed resolution condemning President Trump for removing American troops from northern Syria, instead offering binding legislation to indefinitely end arms sales to Turkey.\n\n\u201cThe Constitution is quite clear. No authorization has ever been given for the use of force in Syria. No authorization of declaration of war. No permission to be there at all. So if they want to insert themselves into this civil war, by all means, let\u2019s have a debate. Let\u2019s have the constitutional debate. But I, for one, am not willing to send one young man or one young woman \u2014 one soldier \u2014 over there without a clear mission. There is no clear mission,\u201d Dr. Paul said on the floor.\n\nFollowing his objection, Dr. Paul sought to pass his bill, which was opposed.\n\nYou can watch Dr. Paul\u2019s objection HERE and his remarks when offering his legislation HERE. You can find Dr. Paul\u2019s bill below.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:39:44Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-dr-rand-paul-defends-president-removing-troops-syria-introduces-legislation-end-arms-sales/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.23314918205142, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}