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“I further ask that the committee-reported amendment to the resolution be agreed to; the resolution, as amended, be agreed to, the committee-reported amendment to the preamble be agreed to; the preamble, as amended, be agreed to; and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Without objection, it is so ordered. The committee amendment was agreed to. The resolution (S. Res. 75), as amended, was agreed to. The committee amendment to the preamble was agreed to. The preamble, as amended, was agreed to. The resolution (S. Res. 75), as amended, was agreed to. The preamble, as amended, was agreed to. The resolution, with its preamble, reads as follows: S. Res. 75 Whereas, in 1982, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2013, Congress declared that it deplored the religious persecution by the Government of Iran of the Baha'i community and would hold the Government of Iran responsible for upholding the rights of all Iranian nationals, including members of the Baha'i Faith; Whereas the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom 2013 Report stated that ``[t]he Baha'i community has long been subject to particularly severe religious freedom violations,'' and that ``[s]ince 1979, the government has killed more than 200 Baha'i leaders in Iran and dismissed more than 10,000 from government and university jobs,'' in addition to prohibiting them…”