Senators Make Another Bid to Authorize War Against ISIS

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Senators Make Another Bid to Authorize War Against ISIS

Flake and Kaine have tried before
Posted May 25, 2017 11:30 AM
Niels Lesniewski


“When I voted in 2001 to authorize military force against the perpetrators of the September 11th attacks, I had no idea I would be authorizing armed conflict for more than fifteen years, and counting.”

That’s what Sen. Jeff Flake said Thursday. The Arizona Republican was announcing yet another effort with Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, to get Congress to go on record to authorize the use of military force against the Islamic State and other terror groups.

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