Honorable Ike Skelton
U.S. Representative, Missouri, Democrat
Representative Skelton, of the Fourth District of Missouri, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976. He chairs the House Committee on Armed Services. The following is excerpted from his statement during the July 27, 2010, House floor debate on House Concurrent Resolution 301, directing the president to remove U.S. Armed Forces from Pakistan. The Kucinich Resolution is the wrong answer to the wrong question at the wrong time. It directs the U.S. under the War Powers Act to withdraw from a country where we are not in fact fighting a “war,” a country where the desperately…
