PlainBillCongress, translated.Legislation. Context. Public interest.Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8015-8016)
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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · May 22, 1998
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should: (1) encourage the new political leadership in Indonesia to institute genuine democratic and economic reforms, including the establishment of an independent judiciary, civilian control of the military, and the release of political prisoners; (2) encourage the new political leadership in Indonesia to promote and protect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all the people of Indonesia and East Timor; and (3) work actively, through the United Nations and with U.S. allies, to carry out the directives of existing U.N. resolutions on East Timor and to support an internationally supervised referendum on self-determination.
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Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] · D–WI
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Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8015-8016)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S8015-8016)
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 423.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported to Senate by Senator Helms without amendment and with a preamble. Without written report.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported to Senate by Senator Helms without amendment and with a preamble. Without written report.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5459-5460)
Introduced in Senate
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