On the recordSeptember 10, 2013
I am so proud to be working on this with the Senator. Our staffs have worked well together. They are most competent and they have done a yeoman job. The resolution we have come with basically is the only one out there, an option today that basically controls the chemical weapons. It actually controls these chemical weapons from ever being used on another human being--which we all deplore. With that, maybe we can help, now, move on to trying to help resolve this civil war. The carnage is unbelievable. They said there were 99,000 people killed in Syria with conventional weapons and 1,000 with chemicals. To me, every person is a life we could save, we ought to try to save. With that being said, we have to give them a chance to come be involved, and that is what we have done. At this time last week we never thought we would have been here. This time 2 days ago we would not have thought we could be here. But we are moving in the right direction. Let me make it clear what the resolution the Senator and our staffs have worked on does. The section, our title, is this, basically: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, The section of our coining, this section of our title . . . may be cited as the ``Chemical Weapons Control and Accountability Resolution of 2013.'' Basically exactly what it says.…
