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On the recordMay 15, 2013
Congress has to jealously guard its prerogative to commence hostilities and to decide against whom those hostilities will be commenced.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine asserts Congress's responsibility to declare war and define hostilities.

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