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MURKOWSKI: Has the administration considered seeking an authorization for use of military force from Congress? HEGSETH: Our view is that should the president make the decision to recommence, we would have all the authorities to do so under Article 2

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Getting Pete Hegseth under oath would allow Congress to ask tough questions about the costs, objectives, and mistakes of the Iran War. We have to force these open hearings to happen.

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