Third letter in only two days.

Via The Hill:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is highlighting the restrictions of the Senate’s use-of-force resolution to drum up support for President Obama’s plan to strike Syria.

In her third public letter to her caucus this week, Pelosi emphasized that the Senate proposal, passed Wednesday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “addresses some of the concerns expressed by many of our House members.”

“Specifically, the resolution prevents boots on the ground, ties the authorization more closely to the use of chemical and other weapons of mass destruction, and has a limited timetable,” Pelosi wrote.

The string of letters underscores the stakes of the Syria vote for Obama and other leading Democrats, who want Congress to authorize the strikes to show humanitarian support for Syria’s civilian victims, to send a global message that chemical attacks carry serious consequences and — not least — to accentuate Obama’s power to persuade as he enters the eighth month of his second term.

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