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Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, asks a question during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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A Syrian military tank is aflame during clashes with Free Syrian Army fighters in Joubar, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, in this citizen journalism image provided by the Syrian Revolution Against Bashar Assad and authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting. (AP Photo/The Syrian Revolution Against Bashar Assad)
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Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, prior to the start of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria where they testified. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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President Obama met with National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice (left) and House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Tuesday before meeting with members of Congress to discuss Syria and a proposed military strike. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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** FILE ** House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks President Obama. (Associated Press photographs)
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From left, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to advance President Obama's request for congressional authorization for military intervention in Syria, a response to last month's alleged sarin gas attack in the Syrian civil war, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Secretary of State John Kerry (left) and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to advance President Obama's request for congressional authorization for military intervention in Syria, a response to last month's alleged sarin gas attack in the Syrian civil war, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 3, 2013. Lawmakers are returning a week early from recess for the first public hearing about U.S. plans for military action to punish Syrian President Bashar Assad as President Obama seeks to convince skeptical Americans and their representatives to act following the deadly gas attack outside Damascus. (Associated Press)
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From left: Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Robert Menendez, New Jersey Democrat, and Secretary of State John Kerry wait on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 3, 2013, prior to the start of the committee's hearing on President Obama's request for congressional authorization for military intervention in Syria. (Associated Press)
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House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks to reporters outside the White House on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, following a meeting between President Obama and congressional leaders to discuss the situation in Syria. Mr. Boehner said he will support the president's call for the U.S. to take action against Syria for alleged chemical weapons use and said his Republican colleagues should support the president, too. (Associated Press)
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President Obama speaks to the press as National Security Adviser Susan Rice (left) and House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, look to him in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 3, 2013, before a meeting with members of Congress to discuss the situation in Syria. (Associated Press)
