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.
