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On the recordSeptember 3, 2013
Is it acceptable for this resolution to confirm what you have already said, and that is that the resolution itself does not add in any way to the powers of the President to put boots on the ground in Syria?
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel questions the limitations of the resolution on military intervention.

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