A State Department official testified Thursday morning that the administration was considering “some new” options to address Russia’s activity in Syria at the request of President Obama, some seven months after Secretary of State John Kerry warned of a “plan B” in the event that an agreed-upon diplomatic solution failed.

When pressed for an update about the State Department’s progress on “plan B” by Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker, Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken said Russia and Assad would face consequences for non-compliance, but didn’t specify the nature of those consequences or a mechanism for implementing them.