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Tim Kaine: “A month or so back, we were not able to get sufficient votes…”

Featuring: Tim Kaine, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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I have brought war powers resolutions to the floor of the Senate and forced my colleagues to vote on the question of whether the president should be able to wage war without Congress. A month or so back, we were not able to get sufficient votes to pass my resolutions, although we did get some Republican support. Not quite enough, but I'm going to renew these motions. The ongoing peso strikes in international waters, the recent revelations that the administration even struck survivors who survived a first … (00:19–00:26)

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Asserts that a recent vote on war powers resolutions did not pass but received some Republican support.

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