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Jeff Flake: “The Constitution gives the Congress the authority to declare war.”

On the recordJune 19, 2017
The Constitution gives the Congress the authority to declare war.
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona

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Flake asserts Congress's constitutional role in war declarations.

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