WATCH: Senate Blocks Third Attempt by Sens. Schiff, Murphy, Booker, Kaine to End Trump’s Illegal War in Iran

Schiff: "One month of war. And for what?"

Washington, D.C. - Today, a majority of Senate Republicans again voted to block a resolution to end President Trump's illegal war in Iran sponsored by U.S. Senators Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and Tim Kaine (D-Va.).

This is the third resolution, this one led by Murphy, the Senators have forced a vote on since the beginning of the war.

On the Senate floor prior to the vote, Schiff emphasized the consequences the American people have seen and faced in the past month since Trump's war in Iran began: the tragic deaths of 13 American servicemembers, the injuries of hundreds more, and the toll on their families, as well as the skyrocketing gas prices being felt by Americans. Schiff also pointed out the public reports indicating that more than 2,500 Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County were ordered to be dispatched to the Middle East and warned of more uncertainty to come.

"A reminder, to all of us, of the costs that Americans pay not just in the loss of our servicemembers and the pain that overwhelms their families, but of the hardships and poverty that we will no longer be able to address here at home, the illness that will go untreated, the school that will go unopened, the road that will go unpaved, the senior that will go unfed - as we drop the cost equivalent of 10 new hospitals a day on Iran," said Senator Schiff on the Senate floor.

"We are on the cusp of American boots on the ground. And as the goalposts have continued to shift, and as we in this Congress have continued to abdicate our responsibility - I ask my colleagues: will that still be your red line? Or will the president be allowed to put American Special Forces in harm's way for a war that Congress has not authorized, that has not been debated, that has not even held a single open hearing to discuss? And a war whose true purpose has been kept hidden from most Americans," Schiff continued.

These war power votes follow the Senators' demands that Republican Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) ensure the relevant committees of jurisdiction in the Senate hold immediate public hearings on the administration's unconstitutional war in Iran. The Senators demanded they will use these resolutions to force debate and additional votes if Republican leadership does not arrange public committee hearings with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Watch his full speech HERE. Download remarks HERE.

Read the full transcript of his remarks as delivered below:

Last Friday, public reports indicated that more than 2,500 Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County were now on their way to the Trump war in the Middle East, the Trump Iran war.

This is the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, aboard the USS Portland, USS Comstock, and USS Boxer.

Their voyage joins the amphibious assault force aboard the USS Tripoli, which also called San Diego home until last year. With great uncertainty, Californians are now being called upon to be the potential tip of the next spear in this war.

The Marines recruiting slogan, going back to their founding in 1775, is "first to fight." And they continue to live up to that slogan and that ethos.

They have been boots on the beaches of Islands of the Pacific, in the trenches of Europe, in the mountains of Afghanistan, in the sands of Iraq, in Syria, Africa and theaters of American war everywhere, and for centuries.

And that's just it - they are the boots on the ground, in times of war. So as thousands of men and women have been called up to mobilize around the world, what solace can we offer their families about what awaits them?

What can we tell them about this so-called 'excursion,' as the president refers to it. Or as he called it today, reluctant to use the word war all of a sudden, he called it a military operation.

Well, this weekend marks one month that our nation has been at war with Iran. And already, we have lost one American servicemember nearly every two days of the conflict.

On the second day of the war, that servicemember was Chief Warrant Officer [3] Robert Marzan, from Sacramento, California. He was killed in Kuwait, by an Iranian strike. His memory has burned brightly in the hearts of those who knew him, and since his death, we have seen tributes pour in.

One said "Rob was probably one of the best humans I've ever met."

"I know that if I called him today, if he was still here, he would drop what he was doing and help me."

Another said that Chief Warrant Officer Marzan and his family "served as the surrogate family for a lot of soldiers" for their unit based in Des Moines.

In the true American spirit, these stories have been shared widely, as communities have come together to raise money to help fly those who knew him home to California for his funeral later this month.

That is a solidarity that Americans know in a time of war. But the people who led us into this war did so without the consent of the American people and without the authorization of this Congress.

The commander in chief, who called it a war in his first public comments about the strikes against Iran, now engages in semantics while thousands more servicemembers ship out halfway around the world.

We were told that this war would end soon. But now the president's extended deadline puts us on track for at least a month of conflict, with more fighting in the future if Iran refuses to yield.

There is no deadline that anyone, at this point, can rely upon.

At least one Republican Senator is overtly calling for boots on the ground, saying, "We did Iwo Jima, we can do this."

I just remind members the cost of Iwo Jima was high. 6,821 dead. 19,217 wounded.

We have seen the timelines, the rationales, and even the baseline facts of this conflict change by the day, or even multiple times during the same press conference.

The goalposts have moved, from regime change and imminent threat to long term freedom for the Iranian people and then back to preventing them from building out a nuclear program that was supposedly obliterated in another military operation only nine months earlier.

And we can be fairly sure, before this war is over - perhaps even before this week is over, that the goalposts will move again.

That's why, last week, we stood here and forced the Senate to again go on record.

We cannot become 'Lucy with the football', constantly convinced that the latest market-calming post by the president in the morning will mean we have not sent new Marines off to the conflict zone that evening.

Last week, I stood here and reminded my colleagues of the words of President Eisenhower, the architect of one of our nation's greatest military victories over a murderous regime.

He said: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

It is a reminder, to all of us, of the costs that Americans pay not just in the loss of our servicemembers and the pain that overwhelms their families, but of the hardships and poverty that we will no longer be able to address here at home, the illness that will go untreated, the school that will go unopened, the road that will go unpaved, the senior that will go unfed - as we drop the cost equivalent of 10 new hospitals a day on Iran.

The Pentagon is proposing a $200 billion supplemental to fund this war. Do you know what that means for your family? That means that the cost for your family is $1,400. That's just the starting cost for this supplemental funding bill. $1,400 for your family. That's not including all the more you're paying at the pump and for everything else. But that is just the cost that is being proposed for your family.

Well tonight, I stand here to remind my colleagues not just of Eisenhower but of another Republican President - Herbert Hoover.

Hoover said: "Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."

The youth were put at risk, like the 2,500 Marines sailing from San Diego as we speak.

The youth, like the thousands of others already sleeping in bunks onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and the Gerald Ford.

In this case, older men have not even given them the decency of a declaration of war.

Instead, we have quietly walked up to the red line that I know so many hold in their hearts when it comes to American military power being used abroad.

We are on the cusp of American boots on the ground. And as the goalposts have continued to shift, and as we in this Congress have continued to abdicate our responsibility - I ask my colleagues: will that still be your red line?

Or will the president be allowed to put American Special Forces in harm's way for a war that Congress has not authorized, that has not been debated, that has not even held a single open hearing to discuss? And a war whose true purpose has been kept hidden from most Americans.

A war that by Saturday will have gone on for an entire month, without the support of the majority of the American people and without the approval of the only part of government to whom the Framers gave the power to approve military force - the Congress.

One month of war. And for what?

A new Supreme Leader, a new hardliner with a new appetite for revenge?

A new windfall for Russia, made possible by American sanctions relief?

A new skyrocketing price of gas?

A new rising toll on servicemembers and their families?

It is time to put a stop to this war before its costs rise further still. It is time for the Congress of the United States to do its job.

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