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05-15-2013, 02:19 PM
Senate panel to vote on arming Syrian rebels
By Julian Pecquet - 05/15/13 12:15 PM ET
A Senate panel is expected to vote next week on arming vetted Syrian rebel groups.
The vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would mark the first time lawmakers have voted to approve arming Syrian rebels and could increase pressure on the Obama administration to take action in the 26-month-old civil war.
The top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations panel announced they had introduced the Syria Transition Support Act on Wednesday. A vote on the bill is expected as early as Tuesday afternoon.
Panel Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) agreed to modify the bill he introduced last week in order to get ranking member Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) on board. Such bipartisan action would send the strongest signal yet to the Obama administration that Congress is demanding stronger action while giving a boost to similar legislation that the top Democrat on the equivalent House panel, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), introduced in March.
“It’s largely along the line of what I originally introduced," Menendez told The Hill in a hallway interview, "but with a little bit of expansion, and we’re together on it now, and we’ve refined all the language.”
The bill would create a $250 million a year transition fund to assist the civilian opposition and sanction sales of weapons and oil to the Assad regime.
"The future for Syria is uncertain, but the U.S. has a vested interest in trying to prevent an extremist takeover, which poses a very real risk for us and the region," Corker said in a statement announcing his co-sponsorship.
"Without authorizing the use of force or additional spending, this legislation will begin to implement a more coherent U.S. strategy, both now and for the day after Assad, that is focused on trying to shift the momentum on the ground toward moderate opposition groups while also helping them build support within and outside Syria for a new government,” he said.
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/299889-congress-to-vote-on-bipartisan-vote-to-arm-syrian-rebels-next-week
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Yes, the ones who rip out hearts and eat them.. he wants them to give them $250m/year.
The madness continues.
By Julian Pecquet - 05/15/13 12:15 PM ET
A Senate panel is expected to vote next week on arming vetted Syrian rebel groups.
The vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would mark the first time lawmakers have voted to approve arming Syrian rebels and could increase pressure on the Obama administration to take action in the 26-month-old civil war.
The top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations panel announced they had introduced the Syria Transition Support Act on Wednesday. A vote on the bill is expected as early as Tuesday afternoon.
Panel Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) agreed to modify the bill he introduced last week in order to get ranking member Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) on board. Such bipartisan action would send the strongest signal yet to the Obama administration that Congress is demanding stronger action while giving a boost to similar legislation that the top Democrat on the equivalent House panel, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), introduced in March.
“It’s largely along the line of what I originally introduced," Menendez told The Hill in a hallway interview, "but with a little bit of expansion, and we’re together on it now, and we’ve refined all the language.”
The bill would create a $250 million a year transition fund to assist the civilian opposition and sanction sales of weapons and oil to the Assad regime.
"The future for Syria is uncertain, but the U.S. has a vested interest in trying to prevent an extremist takeover, which poses a very real risk for us and the region," Corker said in a statement announcing his co-sponsorship.
"Without authorizing the use of force or additional spending, this legislation will begin to implement a more coherent U.S. strategy, both now and for the day after Assad, that is focused on trying to shift the momentum on the ground toward moderate opposition groups while also helping them build support within and outside Syria for a new government,” he said.
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/299889-congress-to-vote-on-bipartisan-vote-to-arm-syrian-rebels-next-week
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Yes, the ones who rip out hearts and eat them.. he wants them to give them $250m/year.
The madness continues.