Honorable Rand Paul
United States Senator, Kentucky, Republican
Senator Paul was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He has been a practicing ophthalmologist since 1993. In 1995, he founded the Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic. He sits on the following committees: Foreign Relations; Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Homeland Security and Government Affairs; and Small Business and Entrepreneurship. The following is from the September 13, 2017, Senate floor debate on Senator Paul’s amendment to H.R. 2819, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018. For the first time in 15 years, we are debating the congressional role in the declaration of war. We have fought the…
