For the first time, the House of Representatives will vote THIS WEEK on War Powers Resolutions to stop US hostilities toward Venezuela.

Since the recent round of War Powers Resolution votes in the Senate, the situation continues to escalate. First, the US seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, with reports that the Trump administration has plans for additional seizures. The illegal bombing of small boats continues as well. Just on Tuesday, the Pentagon reports military strikes on three more boats in the eastern Pacific. In total, these strikes have now accounted for the extrajudicial killing of at least 95 people. International legal and human rights experts have widely denounced the extrajudicial killings as violations of international law, even calling them crimes against humanity.

President Donald Trump has also signaled that the US is planning for a land invasion and acknowledged that he has authorized covert CIA operations within Venezuela.

This is quickly becoming a potential five-alarm fire. We need to press even harder with the message that it is Congress, NOT the president, that gets to decide when the US goes to war. Our Constitution gives Congress the power to stop a warmongering president like Trump by passing a War Powers Resolution. This week, your representative will be voting to do just that.

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