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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenators Drafting New Syria Resolution To Meet Tuesday Afternoon
Senators Drafting New Syria Resolution To Meet Tuesday Afternoon
The group of senators formulating a revised resolution on Syria that reflects the last day's events is scheduled to meet Tuesday at 3 p.m. ET, a Senate Democratic aide confirmed to TPM.
The new resolution would ask the United Nations to pass a resolution that says Bashar al-Assad's regime used chemical weapons and that U.N. investigators must go into Syria and secure the country's chemical weapons, according to Politico. If that did not happen, then the United States could order military strikes against the Syrian government.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), one of the senators involved in drafting the new resolution, told reporters that the White House was being routinely consulted as the new language was being crafted.
Politico reported that the group included: John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Schumer, Bob Casey (D-PA), Chris Coons (D-DE), Carl Levin (D-MI) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ).
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who had co-sponsored an earlier alternative resolution with Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) when a military strike appeared imminent, also told reporters Tuesday that he had shared the previous draft -- which required Assad to disband his chemical weapons within 45 days to avoid a strike -- with the new group.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/syria-senate-gang-to-meet-this-afternoon
The group of senators formulating a revised resolution on Syria that reflects the last day's events is scheduled to meet Tuesday at 3 p.m. ET, a Senate Democratic aide confirmed to TPM.
The new resolution would ask the United Nations to pass a resolution that says Bashar al-Assad's regime used chemical weapons and that U.N. investigators must go into Syria and secure the country's chemical weapons, according to Politico. If that did not happen, then the United States could order military strikes against the Syrian government.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), one of the senators involved in drafting the new resolution, told reporters that the White House was being routinely consulted as the new language was being crafted.
Politico reported that the group included: John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Schumer, Bob Casey (D-PA), Chris Coons (D-DE), Carl Levin (D-MI) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ).
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who had co-sponsored an earlier alternative resolution with Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) when a military strike appeared imminent, also told reporters Tuesday that he had shared the previous draft -- which required Assad to disband his chemical weapons within 45 days to avoid a strike -- with the new group.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/syria-senate-gang-to-meet-this-afternoon
Senators Heitkamp and Manchin float diplomatic alternative to military strikes on Syria
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/06/1236747/-Senators-Heitkamp-and-Manchin-float-diplomatic-alternative-to-Syrian-military-strikes
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Senators Drafting New Syria Resolution To Meet Tuesday Afternoon (Original Post)
ProSense
Sep 2013
OP
it seems with an escape valve of chem weapons seizure by international community
Pretzel_Warrior
Sep 2013
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Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)1. I bet that makes her feel really special
http://www.democraticunderground.com/~Tuesday%20Afternoon
(someone was gonna go there, sooner or later...)
(someone was gonna go there, sooner or later...)
ProSense
(116,464 posts)2. LOL! n/t
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)3. it seems with an escape valve of chem weapons seizure by international community
the legislators ought to feel a lot better about at least continuing to provide the credible option of force so that this agreement has some type of teeth.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)4. This resolution will still have the same problems: no proof of responsibility and no UNSC resolution
Sounds like another route to another war.