即将就任众议院外交事务委员会主席的艾略特·恩格尔（Eliot Engel）已经表示民主党可能会寻求国会授权在叙利亚使用武力。
Eliot Engel, the incoming chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has already said that the Democrats may seek congressional authorization for the use of military force in Syria.