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On the recordMay 20, 2015
I just hope that we would follow--I hate to say this--I hope we would follow the lead of other nations whose legislative bodies have decided it was important enough to have a debate and vote on this before the public.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine urges Congress to debate military action like other nations have done.

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