We convene this hearing, as we have convened many before, to make one of the most difficult decisions we are asked and tasked to make-the authorization of the use of American military power. This time in Syria to respond to the horrific chemical attack of August 21st that took the lives of 1,429 Syrians, including at least 426 children. The images of that day are sickening, and in my view, the world cannot ignore the inhumanity and the horror of this...