Earlier this month , three Democratic senators -- Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut , Bill Nelson of Florida and John Kerry of Massachusetts -- ignored protests from the Bush administration and flew to Damascus to meet with the Syrian president , Bashar al-Assad .
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