Byrd,RobertC

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Opposed as one of a few Democrats, against the War Resolution. (See Donahue,Phil) In February 2003, he supported a resolution by Senator Kennedy: Senator Kennedy introduced his Resolution No. 32 in the U.S. Senate on January 29, 2003, which expressed the sense of the Senate with respect to the actions the U.S. President should take before any use of military force against Iraq without the broad support of the international community. S. Res. 32 has been co-sponsored by Senator Byrd and referred to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Both got support by six Congress members -- Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL), Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D- TX), Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY) -- a group of U.S. soldiers and parents of soldiers, filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to stop President Bush from launching a war against Iraq without a declaration of war from Congress.