While the competition of these priorities and plans for solving the Syrian crisis harks back to the Cold War, ironically these P5 antagonists may have provided the outline of a framework and some structural stability that the Annan plan has been lacking to date.

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Like the Senate framework, the House plan will include a path to citizenship, but details of how that will work are still being discussed.

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