The “no"s keep piling up on Syria resolution in the House
By Aaron Blake and Sean Sullivan, WashPost, Updated: September 5, 2013
Congress took the first formal step toward approving military action in Syria on Wednesday, with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s 10-7 vote to send its resolution to the full chamber.
But whether or not the resolution winds up passing in the Senate, the real hurdle remains in the GOP-controlled House. And things on that front are looking progressively dimmer for the Obama administration.
Over the last two days, scores of members — most of them Republicans, but many of them Democrats — have expressed their opposition to the use of force in Syria.
According to The Fix’s handy-dandy whip count, the ranks of the opposition more than doubled from 34 on Tuesday morning to 83 by Wednesday night.
(More here.)
Congress took the first formal step toward approving military action in Syria on Wednesday, with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s 10-7 vote to send its resolution to the full chamber.
But whether or not the resolution winds up passing in the Senate, the real hurdle remains in the GOP-controlled House. And things on that front are looking progressively dimmer for the Obama administration.
Over the last two days, scores of members — most of them Republicans, but many of them Democrats — have expressed their opposition to the use of force in Syria.
According to The Fix’s handy-dandy whip count, the ranks of the opposition more than doubled from 34 on Tuesday morning to 83 by Wednesday night.
(More here.)
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The count lists Tim Walz as a Definite NO ... yet other reports indicate that he is still undecided.
BTW, Walz will be at the St. Peter Co-Op on Friday from noon to 1PM for a "Congress on the Corner" event with the prime subject being Syria.
I would be most interested in how Lois Capps (D-CA) votes ... she was at the refugee camps earlier this month and has a good number of military veterans in her district ... at present, she is undecided.
The other one to watch is Adam Smith, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, who also traveled to the region during August.
Lastly, it would be interesting to see this vote broken down by religious affiliation ... When Keith Ellison is joined by leading Congressional Jews supporting the resolution while Bachmann opposes it, it makes you wonder if there is a religious question as some may view this as a Sunni-Shiite fight.
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