Story highlights A Democratic plan would create an "ISIS czar" -- a federal employee who is "fully empowered to unify the federal government's efforts in fighting ISIS," Minority Leader Harry Reid said

Washington (CNN) A day after President Barack Obama's Oval Office address to the nation about the efforts he's leading to defeat ISIS, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid announced a new Democratic bill meant to "take the fight to ISIS while enhancing the protection of Americans here at home."

The bill includes creation of an "ISIS czar" -- a federal employee who is "fully empowered to unify the federal government's efforts in fighting ISIS," Reid said on the Senate floor. "We did it with Ebola. We certainly can do it with this scourge that is facing this country, ISIS."

In fact, a week ago, the White House announced a similar position when Robert Malley was named by the White House to spearhead all maters ISIS.

The bill, which top Democratic aides said was in the work long before Obama's speech last night, calls for the targeted airstrikes against ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria and increased support for local fighters. Reid said Democrats agree with Obama's desire to limit U.S. forces on the ground.

"We do not believe we should put hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground in the middle of another civil war in the Middle East," he said.

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