PlainBillCongress, translated.Legislation. Context. Public interest.Resolution agreed to in Senate with amendments and an amended preamble by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S4249-4250)
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Version 35 · Passed Senate amended · Apr 1, 1993
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the President should seek an international oil embargo through the United Nations (UN) against Libya for its refusal to comply with UN Security Council Resolutions 731 and 748 concerning the bombings of Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772; and (2) all U.S. nationals in Libya who, in defiance of U.S. law, continue to contribute to the Libyan economy should leave immediately. Calls for Libya to: (1) comply with such resolutions; (2) release to the United States or Great Britain, and to France, those responsible for the bombings; (3) provide all information in its possession regarding such bombings; (4) pay compensation to the families of the victims; and (5) cease support, training, and arming of terrorist groups and movements.
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Sen. D'Amato, Alfonse [R-NY] · R–NY
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Resolution agreed to in Senate with amendments and an amended preamble by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S4249-4250)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate with amendments and an amended preamble by Voice Vote.(consideration: CR S4249-4250)
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 52.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported to Senate by Senator Pell with amendments and an amended preamble. Without written report.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported to Senate by Senator Pell with amendments and an amended preamble. Without written report.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1639)
Introduced in Senate
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