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Version 82 · Passed Senate without amendment · Feb 8, 2008
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Urges: (1) the members of the international community, including the United States, that possess the capability to expeditiously provide the tactical and utility helicopters needed for the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur to do so as soon as possible; and (2) the President to personally ask other heads of state to contribute aircraft and crews for the Darfur mission.
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Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE] · D–DE
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Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S820)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S820)
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S820)
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S820)
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S397-398)
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S398)
Introduced in Senate
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