WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley issued the following press release:
Following President Trump's unconstitutional strikes against Iran, Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley-a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-issued the following statement:
"The Constitution is clear: Congress has the power to declare war, not the president.
"James Madison warned us: 'the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. [The Constitution] has accordingly with studied care vested the question of war in the Legislature.'
"Donald Trump is not a king. These strikes are wrong and unauthorized.
"We know where this road leads. Over two decades of war, more than 7,000 American servicemembers were killed...