{"id":18636,"date":"2013-03-06T16:42:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T00:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=18636"},"modified":"2013-03-07T06:13:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:13:36","slug":"sen-durbin-objects-to-resolution-opposing-presidents-ability-to-bomb-citizens-on-us-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/sen-durbin-objects-to-resolution-opposing-presidents-ability-to-bomb-citizens-on-us-soil\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Durbin Objects to Resolution Opposing President&#8217;s Ability to Bomb Citizens on US Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Rand Paul&#8217;s historic filibuster is <del><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/03\/06\/rand-paul-filibusters-senate-condemns-obamas-drone-war\/\">still ongoing<\/a><\/del>\u00a0ended late last night. At one point, he made a proposal. If adopted unanimously by the Senate, Paul said, he would end the filibuster immediately.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18637\" alt=\"Richard_Durbin_official_photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Richard_Durbin_official_photo-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Richard_Durbin_official_photo-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Richard_Durbin_official_photo.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>The proposal was a non-binding resolution opposing the President&#8217;s ability to kill Americans in drone strikes on US soil. Simple enough, you might think. Who could oppose that?<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats, that&#8217;s who.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Dick Durbin, speaking for the majority, rose to say he objects to Paul&#8217;s non-binding resolution. He objects to a unanimous statement from the Senate that the President cannot drop bombs on Americans on US soil. Durbin said he doesn&#8217;t want to make such a vote until we&#8217;ve had proper and thorough congressional hearings on all the issues Senator Paul has brought up today.<\/p>\n<p>It might also be relevant that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/politicians\/contrib.php?cid=n00004981&amp;cycle=2012&amp;type=I&amp;newMem=N&amp;recs=100\">Durbin received $13,000 in campaign contributions from Raytheon<\/a>, a company that manufactures drone technology for the government. He also received $12,000 in campaign contributions from Honeywell International, another drone manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it isn&#8217;t relevant. Truthfully, nobody should need to find additional reasons to condemn Dick Durbin after he rose in opposition to something as simple as opposing (in a non-binding resolution!) the President&#8217;s ability to kill citizens in drone attacks on US soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Rand Paul&#8217;s historic filibuster is still ongoing\u00a0ended late last night. At one point, he made a proposal. If adopted unanimously by the Senate, Paul said, he would end the filibuster immediately. The proposal was a non-binding resolution opposing the President&#8217;s ability to kill Americans in drone strikes on US soil. Simple enough, you might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-18636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18640,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18636\/revisions\/18640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18636"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}