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On the recordMarch 10, 2015
Is it not true that this authorization would give the United States the ability, subject to the other restrictions in the authorization, to engage in hostilities against that organization?
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Murphy questions the authorization's implications for engaging with organizations like Boko Haram.

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