MEXICO CITY—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism, on Thursday released the following statement on the recent U.S. military strikes in Syria:

Protecting our service members overseas is one of the most important jobs of the president, and I support his commitment to respond to our adversaries who put them at risk. This is a good moment to remember the danger to our forces in the Middle East, including 900 U.S. service members in Syria. It is past time for a rethink about the wisdom of having so many Americans so thinly spread across the region. And of course, I remain concerned about any decision to undertake unauthorized military action when the Constitution and the War Powers Act require the President to come to Congress to obtain that authority,” said Murphy.

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