PlainBillCongress, translated.Legislation. Context. Public interest.Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4979-4981; text as passed Senate: CR S4980-4981; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S4979-4980)
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Version 01 · Reported to Senate with amendment(s) · May 23, 2002
Calls upon European governments to: (1) acknowledge the anti-Semitic character of the attacks on Jewish institutions in cities across Europe in the last 18 months as violations of human rights; (2) utilize their law enforcement tools to investigate the crimes and punish the perpetrators; (3) decry the rationalizing of attitudes and attacks against Jews as merely a result of popular frustration with the Middle East conflict; (4) take measures to protect and ensure the security of Jewish citizens and institutions; and (5) make a concerted effort to cultivate an atmosphere of cooperation and reconciliation among the Jewish and non-Jewish residents of Europe.Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) Congress and the Administration must raise this issue in bilateral contacts; (2) the State Department's Annual Country Reports on Human Rights should document this phenomenon worldwide; and (3) the Commission on International Religious Freedom should continue to document and report on this phenomenon.
People & committees
Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR] · R–OR
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Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4979-4981; text as passed Senate: CR S4980-4981; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S4979-4980)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S4979-4981; text as passed Senate: CR S4980-4981; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S4979-4980)
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 390.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Biden with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and with a preamble. Without written report.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Biden with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and with a preamble. Without written report.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3449)
Introduced in Senate
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