{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sheehy.senate.gov/news/press-releases/watch-sheehy-speaks-against-iran-war-powers-resolution-on-senate-floor/", "WATCH: Sheehy Speaks Against Iran War Powers Resolution on Senate Floor", "2026-07-23", "2026", "2026-07", "Republican", "Senate", "MT", "Tim Sheehy", "S001232", "www.sheehy.senate.gov", "sheehy", "https://www.sheehy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "U.S. SENATE \u2013 Senator Tim Sheehy today delivered a floor speech against the Iran War Powers Resolution to halt U.S. operations against the Iranian regime. The video and full transcript of the senator\u2019s remarks are below.\n\nVIDEO:\n\nWatch the full remarks HERE.\n\nTRANSCRIPT:\n\n\u201cThank you, Mr. President.\n\n\u201cYesterday, we saw the President of the United States and many others at Dover Air Force Base presiding over a ceremony that is very sacred to those of us who served, and that is a dignified return of remains from the war zone.\n\n\u201cThat process happens beginning in the war zone, through Dover, to the hometown of our fallen heroes. I participated in many of those ceremonies myself to include carrying friends of mine off the plane.\n\n\u201cOne of those is on this bracelet. He was cut in half by an Iranian EFP.\n\n\u201cThis regime that we are fighting does not care about our partisan politics. They don\u2019t care who you voted for, who you pray to, or where you live. They want to kill all of us. And they don\u2019t just say it, they actually do it. And they\u2019ve been doing it for 47 years.\n\n\u201cThis is a war of choice. The Democrats are correct. It\u2019s a war of choice that was begun by a radical, lunatic band of terrorists that took over a beautiful nation 47 years ago, took it over with brutality, force, and savagery.\n\n\u201cAnd the second they took it over, they didn\u2019t free their people. They didn\u2019t unleash the largest oil reserves in the world to build schools and bridges. They took it over to murder their own people and to spread their disgusting ideology across the world. And that is exactly what they have been doing.\n\n\u201cThey don\u2019t just say it and talk about it. You don\u2019t have to believe what they say. You can simply watch what they\u2019ve done. They have attacked families, women, children, innocent people.\n\n\u201cThey don\u2019t just attack them and kill them. They rape them. They skin them alive on camera. They celebrate it. They honor those people who do disgusting things that we would put in jail for the rest of their lives in this country.\n\n\u201cAnd they do it for fun, and they pay them money to do it, and they\u2019re heroes to that nation. They\u2019ve done it to friends of mine. They\u2019ve done it to families who\u2019ve been in this chamber. And the fact that we sit here and listen to elected officials of this country defend these lunatics who want us all dead \u2013 they want all of you dead. They want all of us dead. They don\u2019t want us to disappear with the snap of a finger. They want us to be raped, burned alive, and cut into pieces.\n\n\u201cWatch the video from October 7th. That\u2019s what they want to happen from Maine to San Diego, from Seattle to Miami. They want this country turned into a burning husk of its former self. And you don\u2019t have to theorize that. That\u2019s what they do.\n\n\u201cFrom the 1983 barracks bombing, where 280 Marines were vaporized in the morning. From USS Cole to the Achille Lauro to every terrorist attack from the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas. These are not humanitarian freedom organizations. They are death-dealing cults, and they want all of us to die brutal deaths.\n\n\u201cWilliam Buckley was abducted in 1985, an American military officer. He was skinned alive on camera by the Iranians.\n\n\u201cAmerican prisoners of war who were captured, they were never called prisoners of war because they were captured by lunatic terrorists, so they were not subject to the Geneva Convention. They were captured and murdered. Power drills through their brains. This is in Iraq. These are families that have dealt with this, and they\u2019ve never gotten a single dime. These families have never gotten restitution, and not a single president has ever stood up to them.\n\n\u201cLove Donald Trump or hate him, love his policies, hate ICE, love ICE, whatever, there\u2019s never been a single president who has stood up to Iran and hit back.\n\n\u201cFor 47 years, our troops and our families have been absorbing attack after attack after attack all over the world. And their radical ideology does not stop at the Persian Gulf. It doesn\u2019t stop at Tel Aviv. They want to do this everywhere. It\u2019s a global, radical ideology. And we\u2019ve been fighting it for half a century.\n\n\u201cWe didn\u2019t start this war. We did not, but we will finish it. And forever wars are not popular with anybody these days. Both sides of that love to attack our forever wars. And I can promise you, being someone overseas wearing the uniform, when you\u2019re fighting for your country, you don\u2019t care what party\u2019s in office. But you\u2019re fighting to defend your country, and you turn on the news and see your elected officials stabbing you in the back, telling you that you\u2019re failing, that you\u2019ve failed every goal of the war, is what I just heard.\n\n\u201cLast time I checked, we\u2019ve wiped these bastards out. An occasional missile strike and boats in the strait, that\u2019s not military strength. Those are the flailings of a failing empire. Those are the flailings of a nation in collapse because they deserve it.\n\n\u201cSo I encourage our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, whatever\u2019s politically convenient, whatever plays well on Twitter or Facebook, think about the people who are deployed right now, standing on that wall with a loaded weapon, who have volunteered to defend our country and our way of life. Because they are there defending us in a just war.\n\n\u201cBecause we did not start a war with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. They started it with us 47 years ago, and their attacks have gone unanswered for half a century.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s time to fix this problem and make sure another generation of Americans does not have to fight this murderous, savage adversary.\n\n\u201cThank you, Mr. President.\u201d", 1, "2026-07-24T07:30:11Z", "2026-07-24T07:31:13Z"]], "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.sheehy.senate.gov/news/press-releases/watch-sheehy-speaks-against-iran-war-powers-resolution-on-senate-floor/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0403571650385857, "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"}