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Edited on Sun Jun-22-08 11:44 PM by Texas Explorer
Introduced on May 22, 2008, House Concurrent Resolution 362 has 169 co-sponsors, including 77 Democrats and 92 Republicans. HCR 362 expresses the sense of Congress regarding the threat posed to international peace, stability in the Middle East, and the vital national security interests of the United States by Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and regional hegemony, and for other purposes. The gist of the resolution is to create an international blockade of Iran to prevent it from importing the refined gasoline it needs to run its economy, inspect all cargo in and out of Iran, increase economic sanctions, and restricting the movement of Iranian officials, especially officials involved with making the case to the rest of the world that Iran suspended its nuclear weapons research several years ago. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.CON.RES.362:Sponsor: Rep Ackerman, Gary L. (introduced 5/22/2008) Cosponsors (169) Related Bills: S.RES.580 Latest Major Action: 5/22/2008 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COSPONSORS(169)
Rep Alexander, Rodney - 6/11/2008 Rep Allen, Thomas H. - 6/11/2008 Rep Arcuri, Michael A. - 6/17/2008 Rep Baca, Joe - 6/3/2008 Rep Bartlett, Roscoe G. - 6/4/2008 Rep Berkley, Shelley - 6/4/2008 Rep Bilbray, Brian P. - 6/4/2008 Rep Bilirakis, Gus M. - 6/10/2008 Rep Bishop, Rob - 6/17/2008 Rep Blackburn, Marsha - 6/4/2008 Rep Bonner, Jo - 6/10/2008 Rep Boren, Dan - 6/10/2008 Rep Boyd, Allen - 6/17/2008 Rep Brady, Robert A. - 6/3/2008 Rep Broun, Paul C. - 6/4/2008 Rep Brown, Corrine - 6/4/2008 Rep Brown-Waite, Ginny - 6/10/2008 Rep Burgess, Michael C. - 6/4/2008 Rep Burton, Dan - 6/3/2008 Rep Camp, Dave - 6/4/2008 Rep Campbell, John - 6/4/2008 Rep Cannon, Chris - 6/10/2008 Rep Cantor, Eric - 6/3/2008 Rep Carney, Christopher P. - 6/10/2008 Rep Cazayoux, Donald J., Jr. - 6/12/2008 Rep Chabot, Steve - 6/4/2008 Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy - 6/17/2008 Rep Cleaver, Emanuel - 6/5/2008 Rep Coble, Howard - 6/12/2008 Rep Cohen, Steve - 6/10/2008 Rep Conaway, K. Michael - 6/10/2008 Rep Costa, Jim - 6/3/2008 Rep Costello, Jerry F. - 6/17/2008 Rep Courtney, Joe - 6/17/2008 Rep Crowley, Joseph - 6/3/2008 Rep Cuellar, Henry - 6/5/2008 Rep Culberson, John Abney - 6/12/2008 Rep Davis, Danny K. - 6/3/2008 Rep Davis, David - 6/10/2008 Rep Davis, Lincoln - 6/17/2008 Rep Dicks, Norman D. - 6/10/2008 Rep Doyle, Michael F. - 6/17/2008 Rep Drake, Thelma D. - 6/17/2008 Rep Dreier, David - 6/10/2008 Rep Emanuel, Rahm - 6/17/2008 Rep Engel, Eliot L. - 6/3/2008 Rep Fallin, Mary - 6/17/2008 Rep Feeney, Tom - 6/17/2008 Rep Ferguson, Mike - 6/4/2008 Rep Fortenberry, Jeff - 6/11/2008 Rep Fortuno, Luis G. - 6/3/2008 Rep Foxx, Virginia - 6/5/2008 Rep Frank, Barney - 6/3/2008 Rep Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. - 6/4/2008 Rep Gerlach, Jim - 6/5/2008 Rep Gohmert, Louie - 6/4/2008 Rep Gonzalez, Charles A. - 6/10/2008 Rep Goode, Virgil H., Jr. - 6/4/2008 Rep Gordon, Bart - 6/12/2008 Rep Granger, Kay - 6/12/2008 Rep Graves, Sam - 6/4/2008 Rep Green, Al - 6/10/2008 Rep Green, Gene - 6/4/2008 Rep Hare, Phil - 6/5/2008 Rep Harman, Jane - 6/11/2008 Rep Hastings, Alcee L. - 6/4/2008 Rep Hayes, Robin - 6/4/2008 Rep Heller, Dean - 6/17/2008 Rep Hensarling, Jeb - 6/4/2008 Rep Hoekstra, Peter - 6/11/2008 Rep Holden, Tim - 6/4/2008 Rep Hoyer, Steny H. - 6/4/2008 Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 6/17/2008 Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice - 6/17/2008 Rep Johnson, Sam - 6/10/2008 Rep Jones, Stephanie Tubbs - 6/4/2008 Rep Jordan, Jim - 6/17/2008 Rep Kagen, Steve - 6/12/2008 Rep Kennedy, Patrick J. - 6/12/2008 Rep King, Peter T. - 6/17/2008 Rep Kirk, Mark Steven - 6/3/2008 Rep Klein, Ron - 6/3/2008 Rep Knollenberg, Joe - 6/3/2008 Rep Kuhl, John R. "Randy", Jr. - 6/12/2008 Rep Lamborn, Doug - 6/10/2008 Rep Lampson, Nick - 6/10/2008 Rep Langevin, James R. - 6/10/2008 Rep LaTourette, Steven C. - 6/4/2008 Rep Lewis, John - 6/17/2008 Rep Lipinski, Daniel - 6/12/2008 Rep LoBiondo, Frank A. - 6/4/2008 Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 6/4/2008 Rep Lucas, Frank D. - 6/10/2008 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 6/3/2008 Rep Manzullo, Donald A. - 6/4/2008 Rep Marchant, Kenny - 6/5/2008 Rep Marshall, Jim - 6/4/2008 Rep Matheson, Jim - 6/10/2008 Rep McCarthy, Carolyn - 6/4/2008 Rep McCaul, Michael T. - 6/4/2008 Rep McCotter, Thaddeus G. - 6/10/2008 Rep McHugh, John M. - 6/4/2008 Rep McNulty, Michael R. - 6/4/2008 Rep Meek, Kendrick B. - 6/10/2008 Rep Michaud, Michael H. - 6/10/2008 Rep Miller, Brad - 6/10/2008 Rep Miller, Candice S. - 6/10/2008 Rep Miller, Gary G. - 6/10/2008 Rep Mitchell, Harry E. - 6/5/2008 Rep Moran, Jerry - 6/3/2008 Rep Murphy, Tim - 6/17/2008 Rep Musgrave, Marilyn N. - 6/4/2008 Rep Pastor, Ed - 6/4/2008 Rep Pence, Mike - 5/22/2008 Rep Platts, Todd Russell - 6/4/2008 Rep Poe, Ted - 6/4/2008 Rep Porter, Jon C. - 6/4/2008 Rep Price, Tom - 6/10/2008 Rep Radanovich, George - 6/10/2008 Rep Ramstad, Jim - 6/10/2008 Rep Reichert, David G. - 6/10/2008 Rep Renzi, Rick - 6/4/2008 Rep Reynolds, Thomas M. - 6/10/2008 Rep Rodriguez, Ciro D. - 6/4/2008 Rep Rogers, Mike D. - 6/3/2008 Rep Rogers, Mike J. - 6/12/2008 Rep Rohrabacher, Dana - 6/4/2008 Rep Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana - 6/4/2008 Rep Roskam, Peter J. - 6/5/2008 Rep Rothman, Steven R. - 6/4/2008 Rep Royce, Edward R. - 6/3/2008 Rep Ryan, Tim - 6/10/2008 Rep Saxton, Jim - 6/5/2008 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 6/17/2008 Rep Schiff, Adam B. - 6/4/2008 Rep Schwartz, Allyson Y. - 6/5/2008 Rep Scott, David - 6/3/2008 Rep Sessions, Pete - 6/4/2008 Rep Sestak, Joe - 6/10/2008 Rep Shadegg, John B. - 6/4/2008 Rep Shays, Christopher - 6/3/2008 Rep Sherman, Brad - 6/5/2008 Rep Shuler, Heath - 6/5/2008 Rep Shuster, Bill - 6/4/2008 Rep Sires, Albio - 6/12/2008 Rep Smith, Adam - 6/11/2008 Rep Smith, Adrian - 6/10/2008 Rep Smith, Christopher H. - 6/10/2008 Rep Souder, Mark E. - 6/17/2008 Rep Stearns, Cliff - 6/4/2008 Rep Sullivan, John - 6/4/2008 Rep Sutton, Betty - 6/5/2008 Rep Tancredo, Thomas G. - 6/4/2008 Rep Terry, Lee - 6/4/2008 Rep Thompson, Bennie G. - 6/17/2008 Rep Tiberi, Patrick J. - 6/4/2008 Rep Towns, Edolphus - 6/3/2008 Rep Udall, Mark - 6/4/2008 Rep Visclosky, Peter J. - 6/4/2008 Rep Walberg, Timothy - 6/11/2008 Rep Wamp, Zach - 6/4/2008 Rep Wasserman Schultz, Debbie - 6/3/2008 Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 6/3/2008 Rep Weiner, Anthony D. - 6/17/2008 Rep Westmoreland, Lynn A. - 6/10/2008 Rep Wexler, Robert - 6/3/2008 Rep Wilson, Charles A. - 6/12/2008 Rep Wilson, Joe - 6/4/2008 Rep Wittman, Robert J. - 6/10/2008
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 22, 2008 Mr. ACKERMAN (for himself and Mr. PENCE) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the threat posed to international peace, stability in the Middle East, and the vital national security interests of the United States by Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and regional hegemony, and for other purposes.
Whereas Iran is a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), has foresworn the acquisition of nuclear weapons by ratification of the NPT, and is legally bound to declare and place all its nuclear activity under constant monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA);
Whereas for nearly 20 years, in clear contravention of its explicit obligations under the NPT, Iran operated a covert nuclear program until it was revealed by an Iranian opposition group in 2002;
Whereas the IAEA has confirmed such illicit covert nuclear activities as the importation of uranium hexafluoride, construction of a uranium enrichment facility, experimentation with plutonium, importation of centrifuge technology, construction of centrifuges, and importation of designs to convert highly enriched uranium gas into metal and shape it into the core of a nuclear weapon;
Whereas Iran continues to expand the number of centrifuges at its enrichment facility, as made evident by its announced intention to begin installation of 6,000 advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium, in defiance of binding United Nations Security Council resolutions demanding Iran suspend enrichment activities;
Whereas the November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate reported that Iran was secretly working on the design and manufacture of a nuclear warhead until at least 2003, but that Iran could have enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon as soon as late 2009;
Whereas an Iranian nuclear weapons capability would pose a grave threat to international peace and security by fundamentally altering and destabilizing the strategic balance in the Middle East, and severely undermining the global nonproliferation regime;
Whereas Iran's overt sponsorship of several terrorist groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah, and its close ties to Syria raise the possibility that Iran would share its nuclear materials and technology with others;
Whereas Iran continues to develop ballistic missile technology and is pursuing the capability to field intercontinental ballistic missiles, a delivery system suited almost exclusively to nuclear weapons payloads;
Whereas Iranian leaders have repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel, a major non-North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally, and a member of the United Nations;
Whereas the United States, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany have offered, and continue to offer, to negotiate a significant package of economic, diplomatic, and security incentives if Iran complies with the United Nations Security Council's resolutions demanding that Iran suspend uranium enrichment;
Whereas Iran has consistently refused such offers;
Whereas as a result of Iran's failure to comply with the mandates of the United Nations Security Council, taken under Chapter VII of the United Nations' Charter, the international community has imposed limited sanctions over the past 2 years that have begun to have an impact on the Iranian economy;
Whereas Iran's rapid development of its nuclear capabilities is outpacing the slow ratcheting up of economic and diplomatic sanctions;
Whereas Iran has used its banking system, including the Central Bank of Iran, to support its proliferation efforts and its assistance to terrorist groups, leading the Department of Treasury to designate 4 large Iranian banks proliferators and supporters of terrorism;
Whereas Iran's support for Hezbollah has enabled that group to wage war against the Government and people of Lebanon, leading to its political domination of that country;
Whereas Iran's support for Hamas has enabled it to illegally seize control of Gaza from the Palestinian Authority, and to continuously bombard Israeli civilians with rockets and mortars;
Whereas Iran continues to provide training, weapons, and financial assistance to Shi'a militants inside of Iraq and antigovernment warlords in Afghanistan;
Whereas those Shi'a militant groups and Afghan warlords use Iranian training, weapons, and financing to attack American and allied forces trying to support the legitimate Governments of Iraq and Afghanistan;
Whereas Iran is further destabilizing the Middle East by underwriting a massive rearmament campaign by Syria;
Whereas through these efforts, Iran seeks to establish regional hegemony, threatens longstanding friends and allies of the United States in the Middle East, and endangers vital American national security interests; and
Whereas nothing in this resolution shall be construed as an authorization of the use of force against Iran: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That Congress--
(1) declares that preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability, through all appropriate economic, political, and diplomatic means, is vital to the national security interests of the United States and must be dealt with urgently;
(2) urges the President, in the strongest of terms, to immediately use his existing authority to impose sanctions on--
(A) the Central Bank of Iran and any other Iranian bank engaged in proliferation activities or the support of terrorist groups;
(B) international banks which continue to conduct financial transactions with proscribed Iranian banks;
(C) energy companies that have invested $20,000,000 or more in the Iranian petroleum or natural gas sector in any given year since the enactment of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996; and
(D) all companies which continue to do business with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps;
(3) demands that the President initiate an international effort to immediately and dramatically increase the economic, political, and diplomatic pressure on Iran to verifiably suspend its nuclear enrichment activities by, inter alia, prohibiting the export to Iran of all refined petroleum products; imposing stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran; and prohibiting the international movement of all Iranian officials not involved in negotiating the suspension of Iran's nuclear program; and
(4) urges the President to lead a sustained, serious, and forceful effort at regional diplomacy to support the legitimate governments in the region against Iranian efforts to destabilize them, to reassure our friends and allies that the United States supports them in their resistance to Iranian efforts at hegemony, and to make clear to the Government of Iran that the United States will protect America's vital national security interests in the Middle East.
Sounds like this would allow for the end of any negotiations with or discussions of war with Iran. How do you guys read this?
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