Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” that he will get Republican votes for his war powers resolution requiring congressional authorization for U.S. hostilities against Iran.
Host Rachel Maddow said, “The Founders they made this decision deliberately. They knew it was harder for a group of people to make a decision, a difficult decision about something like war, than it would be for an individual person to make such a decision. And they explain that is explicitly why they vested that power in the Congress. Now, you introduced a similar Iran war powers resolution in 2020, and I note that it got support from seven senators who are Republicans, who are still serving as Republican senators today. Do you expect support from
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