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Determine whether the operation legally required congressional approval and whether Congress was notified as stated.
In a televised interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" about the operation to capture Nicolás Maduro, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that the action "was not an action that required congressional approval" because it was not an invasion or extended military operation. In the same exchange, he added that the administration "will seek congressional approval for actions that require congressional approval" and that otherwise Congress "will get congressional notification." The official State Department transcript and NBC's transcript both record Rubio making these points, and independent reporting repeats the same formulation. Verdict: True, because multiple primary and reputable sources show that senior administration officials explicitly framed the operation as not needing congressional approval and pledged to seek approval for actions that do require it while otherwise providing congressional notification, matching the claim exactly.