India, Jan. 16 -- Senator Lisa Murkowski, who serves as Alaska's senior Republican senator, recently challenged President Trump when she chose to sponsor a war powers resolution regarding limited use of the military in Venezuela.

Lisa Murkowski joined with four other Republicans and all Democrats to move a war powers resolution to constrain President Trump's actions against Venezuela from getting further military action without congressional authority for which she drew fire from President Trump.

The fact that Congress must approve future strikes introduced in Senate debate indicates the Senate concerns about unlimited use of the military by the president and pitting Murkowski against Trump in this instance when she received party hardl...