WV: Delegate McGeehan to Reintroduce ‘Protect the Guard’ Bill

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Delegate McGeehan to Reintroduce ‘Protect the Guard’ Bill
Dec 17, 2019
Joselyn King
Wheeling (WV) Intelligencer

CHESTER – Five times Delegate Patrick McGeehan has introduced legislation seeking to keep West Virginia troops from seeing overseas duty when no act of war has been declared by Congress — and he’s going to try it a sixth time in 2020.

McGeehan, R-Hancock, said he will reintroduce “Protect The Guard” legislation when the West Virginia Legislature returns to action next month.

Currently, the authority to activate the National Guard rests with West Virginia’s governor.

“A declaration of war is constitutionally important,” McGeehan said. “It is our duty — if we are going to take oath seriously — that the constitution be followed before we relinquish our guard into combat.

“No war, no guard troops.”

McGeehan is a graduate of the Air Force Academy ...

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Pat is a libertarian and a friend of mine.

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How did the Bill do previously?

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How did the Bill do previously?

"McGeehan was successful in calling for a vote to have the bill discharged and brought before the House and read a first time, but it did not progress from there."

Pat doesn't get along very well with the Republicans in power, and even less when the Dems are in power.