here, all last week with members of the administration coming up and trying to make their case. but again, i really want to underscore how unclear the path forward is. at the senate majority leader did say he expects the first procedural vote on wednesday. that's the plan right now, but my sense in talking to democratic sources is that if harry reid doesn't have the votes, if he's not sure that he can pass this, it's unclear if he will actually bring this up. we're waiting to see what's going on behind the scenes. i'm told there are a lot of different scenarios being discussed. the other thing i should mention is something going on in the senate that is related to the idea that the russians brought up about getting bashar al assad to turn over his chemical weapons. there was a proposal put out last week by two conservative democrats voting no on authorization. heidi heitkamp and joe mansion, and their proportisal is to del the strike for 45 days and use