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Tim Kaine: “I think it is highly important that we stress to the administration that commencing hostilities that puts American…”

On the recordMay 15, 2013
I think it is highly important that we stress to the administration that commencing hostilities that puts American troops or materiel in harm's way in Syria without fresh congressional discussion and approval... would be enormously controversial.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine emphasizes the need for congressional approval before military action in Syria.

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