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Bob Corker: “Rather than abdicating the responsibility for confronting this threat and leaving it to the executive branch, Congress…”

On the recordMay 20, 2014
Rather than abdicating the responsibility for confronting this threat and leaving it to the executive branch, Congress has a responsibility to both provide the President with the legal authorities needed to ensure our security and to define the legal parameters in which this shall be pursued.
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Bob Corker
Republican · Tennessee

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Corker emphasizes Congress's duty to address national security and legal authority.

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