Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is delaying a Senate test vote to authorize the use of force against the Syrian regime.
Reid said Monday evening that he would not take a procedural step that would have officially begun the Senate’s debate and set up a test vote on Wednesday. He added that he consulted with the president, fellow Democrats and the Republican leadership before slowing the timeline for the vote.
The shift came as major news networks aired interviews with President Barack Obama, who told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie that a Russian proposal to shift Syria’s chemical weapons cache to international control is a “potentially positive development."
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