I further ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The bill (S. 756) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, was read the third time, and passed, as follows: S. 756 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Syrian War Crimes Accountability Act of 2015''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress makes the following findings: (1) March 2015 marks the fourth year of the ongoing conflict in Syria. (2) On December 17, 2014, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2191 ``expressing outrage at the unacceptable and escalating level of violence and the killing of more than 191,000 people, including well over 10,000 children'' and approximately 1,000,000 injured in Syria. (3) More than half of Syria's population is displaced as of March 2015, with more than 7,600,000 internally displaced and more than 3,700,000 refugees in neighboring countries.…
On the recordJuly 14, 2015
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Heidi Alexander
Labour Party
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