This morning, House Dems met behind closed doors and emerged with a plan: They will pass a resolution early next week against escalation that's nonbinding and shows support for the troops. They announced the plan at a press conference today.

But here's something that's particularly interesting about today's announcement: Passage of the resolution will be preceeded by an unusual three-day debate on Iraq during which every House member will speak for five minutes. So promised House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer at the press conference.

Does that remind you of anything? Think that the sight of all that debate just might make the Senate look kinda bad in comparison, given its conspicuous failure to even get its own resolution on to the floor?

More on the resolution after the jump.

Things will get very interesting next week. The House resolution, Dem leaders announced today after their closed-door meeting, will be a nonbinding one that expresses support for the troops but opposes escalation.

Are their some House Dems who would like to see something stronger? Yes. According to USA Today, a number of Dems, such as Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii, have been urging colleages "to go further in setting a timetable for troop withdrawals." And 71 House Dems issued a statement asking House leaders to do the same.

But House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel said today that there was "unanimous consensus" at the meeting this morning in support of the resolution as broadly outlined above, and it's widely expected to pass. Unity appears to have been made possible by a sense among House members that a broad statement of opposition that doesn't mention questions of funding is likely to attract GOP support -- something House Minority Leader John Boehner conceded today, too -- thus enabling it to pass with broad bipartisan support. Such a gesture would be a powerful one -- and many House members are aware of what their unity enabled during the successful first 100 days.

What's more, many House members are aware that this resolution only need be a "first step" before other individual House members push other, tougher measures of their own involving funding.

It'll be interesting to see what impact the imagery of three days of debate on Iraq in the House -- followed by broad passage of an anti-escalation resolution -- has on the Senate.