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Tim Kaine: “Congress has to jealously guard its prerogative to commence hostilities and to decide against whom those hostilities…”

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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