The “arms for al-Qaeda act.”

Via The Hill:

Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) on Monday introduced a bill that would provide arms to vetted rebel groups.

Menendez’s legislation would give arms and military training to opposition groups that had been vetted, as well as provide $250 million for basic services and security in a post-Assad Syria.

The bill also includes new sanctions against those providing arms or oil to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime.

Menendez’s bill comes as the Obama administration is reconsidering its opposition to providing arms to the Syrian rebels. Administration officials said last week they are reconsidering that step in the wake of evidence that Assad’s forces may have carried out a chemical weapons attack.