Tom Cole: Obama should call Congress back to Washington for Syria vote

Oklahoma Republican, said Thursday that the president should call Congress back to Washington to vote on a new authorization for military force against the Islamic State in Syria.

“I think the president frankly should call us back,” he said on MSNBC. “So far while the administration has said we welcome congressional support, they haven’t done much to seek it.”

Mr. Cole said he appreciated the vote on training and arming the Free Syrian Army but that the U.S. is “obviously engaged in a war inside Syria” — something he said...