Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution (H. Res. 558) urging the European Union to designate Hizballah in its entirety as a terrorist organization, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the resolution. The text of the resolution is as follows: H. Res. 558 Whereas, in April 1983, a Hizballah terror attack against the United States Embassy in Beirut killed 63 people; Whereas, in October 1983, a Hizballah terror attack against the United States Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killed 241 American and 58 French servicemembers supporting the Multinational Force peacekeeping mission; Whereas, in July 2012, a Hizballah terror attack, carried out by an operative with dual Lebanese-French citizenship, in Burgas, Bulgaria, killed 5 Israeli tourists and 1 Bulgarian; Whereas, in March 2013, a Swedish-Lebanese Hizballah operative in Cyprus was convicted of planning terror attacks against Israeli tourists; Whereas, in June 2015, a Hizballah operative was sentenced to 6 years in prison after he stockpiled more than 8 tons of ammonium nitrate in Cyprus; Whereas the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-102) and the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Amendments Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-272) broadened financial sector sanctions against Hizballah to compel foreign financial institutions to refrain from supporting the terrorist group; Whereas, in May 2018, the Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on Abdulla…”