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Rep. Devin Nunes drafts no-war resolution

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Tular, is drafting a no-war resolution on U.S. intervention in Syria that would require the Obama administration to answer a lot of questions before ordering a military strike....

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Barbara Boxer votes for war resolution

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., voted for the war resolution in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday. Boxer voted by proxy, being absent for the Jewish holiday. Here’s the breakdown of the...

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Obama gets some international support on Syria

As if it weren’t hard enough to bang war drums after a decade of conflict, neither President Obama nor Congress is in Washington, making discussions difficult. That will all change next week. Obama has...

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Dianne Feinstein welcomes Russian overture

Senate Intelligence chair and California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, who supports a military strike on Syria, on Monday welcomed the surprise overture from Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov asking...

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Nancy Pelosi a “team player” on Syria

House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, led opposition to Congressional authorization for the Iraq War under former president George W. Bush, but is a lead supporter of an intervention in...

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Rep. Mike Thompson not convinced

Rep. Mike Thompson, a Vietnam vet who once co-authored a resolution with then Sen. Barack Obama to get out of Iraq, does not appear convinced by President Obama’s presentation on Syria to the nation...

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Rep. Eric Swalwell more negative on Syria after Obama speech

Freshman Rep. Eric Swalwell, the Dublin Democrat who unseated peacenik Pete Stark, strengthened his stand against military intervention from a week ago after hearing President Obama’s address to the...

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Dianne Feinstein: “We bear responsibility” for future chemical attacks

Sen. Dianne Feinstein said in an impassioned floor speech Wednesday that the Assad regime has the capacity to kill “tens of thousands” with chemical weapons, saying, “If the world doesn’t respond now,...

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Why Obama’s Syria speech failed

President Obama seems to have lost ground with his national address Tuesday night on Syria. Although the war resolution has been dropped like a hot potato, Sen. Dianne Feinstein predicted Wednesday...

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