Tamara Keith

And may go part of the way to explaining why the Senate today in a procedural vote with enough Republicans to get over this barrier actually are on the way to passing a war powers resolution today.

trying to restrict future action by the president in Venezuela, largely symbolic, but the symbolism is pretty big.

But Franco, in terms of the long-term commitment that it would take to get Venezuelan oil production up and running and get American companies in there, what has the president said about that commitment?

Camila, 18 months.

And there are questions about governance in Venezuela right now, about who's going to be in charge in the long term, about any number of things.

And as you say, right now, there are no U.S.

boots on the ground, which I don't think is a good thing.

I think a lot of people are happy about.

Yeah.

Well, we're going to leave it there for today.

Thank you, Camila.

Thank you for having me.

I'm Tamara Keith.

I cover the White House.

And thank you for listening to the NPR Politics Podcast.

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There's so much reading in that first year.

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