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On the recordApril 11, 2018
when we passed that Authorization for the Use of Force, which then-President Obama took to the G20 summit, it convinced Putin at the end of the day to have Assad give up the chemical weapons that he had, at least at that time, which were internationally supervised and destroyed.
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

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Menendez discusses the effectiveness of military authorization in resolving conflicts without violence.

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