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Adam Kinzinger: “Our job through the construct of the War Powers Act... is to give the President the authority to declare war on our end.”

On the recordJuly 24, 2017
Our job through the construct of the War Powers Act... is to give the President the authority to declare war on our end.
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Adam Kinzinger
Republican · Illinois

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Kinzinger discusses the War Powers Act and the President's war declaration authority.

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