Political Quotes

“Resolution Directing the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to undertake an appropriate investigation of the circumstances surrounding Representative Hilliard's travel to Libya Whereas Libya is an unapologetic terrorist state that openly supports, promotes and inspires terrorists, Whereas Libya arms, trains and harbors terrorists; Whereas Libya was involved in the 1985 terrorist attacks on airports in Rome and Vienna that left 20 men, women and children, including 5 American citizens, dead; Whereas Libya is responsible for the deaths of two American soldiers in a 1986 terrorist bombing in Berlin; Whereas Libya is responsible for the deaths of 270 men, women and children, including 189 Americans, in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988; Whereas the Security Council of the United Nations has imposed sanctions on Libya in response to its responsibility for the bombings of both Pan Am flight 103 and UTA flight 772; and Whereas those sanctions were put into effect in the United States in 1986 by imposing of Treasury Department regulations, the violation of which may be punishable by a civil penalty and by criminal penalties including fine or imprisonment, and which among other things bar United States persons from engaging in transactions relating to transp…”