Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
reached agreement late Tuesday on a resolution authorizing military strikes
against Syria. The resolution was more narrowly tailored than the White House’s
draft
resolution sent to Congress over the weekend.
Here is the text of the committee’s resolution, which is expected to be voted
on Wednesday.
SYRIA JOINT RESOLUTION FOR
MARKUP
JOINT RESOLUTION
To authorize the limited and tailored use of the United States Armed Forces
against Syria.
Whereas Syria is in material breach of the laws of war by having employed
chemical weapons against its civilian population;
Whereas the abuses of the regime of Bashar al-Assad have included the brutal
repression and war upon its own civilian population, resulting in more than
100,000 people killed in the past two years, and more than 2 million internally
displaced people and Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq,
creating an unprecedented regional crisis and instability;
Read the entire resolution
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