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On the recordSeptember 16, 2014
you are not going to ask for buy-in by the United States Senate or House of Representatives on behalf of the American people in a conflict that you say is going to be multiyear, some people say a decade
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Bob Corker
Republican · Tennessee

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Criticism of Secretary Kerry's approach to military involvement without Congressional approval.

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