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On the recordMarch 10, 2015
What it did not do, and what I think Democrats are not willing to do, is to give this or any other President an open-ended authorization for war, a blank check.
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Menendez asserts that Democrats refuse to grant unlimited military authority to the President.

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