House Republicans Stop Short of Rejecting Strike on Syria
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House Republicans peppered President Barack Obama’s Syria policy with criticism today while most stopped short of saying they would oppose his request to authorize a military strike of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
A hearing of the Foreign Affairs Committee produced skeptical questioning as well as qualified endorsements of Obama’s plan by some of the Republicans who control the panel. Its chairman told Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that the president’s policies contributed to the Syrian crisis.