1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

I have a simple question: what are you planning to do? Where is everybody? The President has now launched two unauthorized military operations in three months. You know the details better than I do, seeing as you were briefed behind closed doors while the rest of us watched it unfold on social media. Article I, Section 8 gives Congress the sole authority to declare war. Not the President. You. So I am asking directly: how do you intend to use that authority? War powers resolutions are being prepared for votes this week, and most reporting suggests they will fail. If that is the case, what is your next step? Because I would hate to think the plan is to vote, lose, shrug, and move on. You have the ability to demand public hearings. You can compel testimony. You can refuse to fund operations that lack congressional authorization. You can make this uncomfortable for every colleague who votes to hand their own power to the executive branch. Are you going to do any of that? And while we are on the subject of unused authority: Congress has changed the size of the Supreme Court seven times. You have the constitutional power to do it again. I bring this up not to relitigate old arguments but to illustrate a pattern. You have tools. Significant ones. And from the outside, it looks like you would rather talk about how stuck everything is than actually pick them up. I did not elect you to express concern. I elected you to govern. I would like to know, specifically, what actions you plan to take to reassert congressional authority over military operations and to use the full scope of your legislative power.