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Tim Kaine: “I think that there isn't a domestic legal justification unless and until we do an authorization for military force.”

On the recordApril 27, 2016
I think that there isn't a domestic legal justification unless and until we do an authorization for military force.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine argues that military action requires new authorization from Congress.

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