Political Quotes

“I ask unanimous consent that the Coons amendment to the resolution, which is at the desk, be agreed to; the resolution, as amended, be agreed to; the Coons 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 amendment (No. 3096) was agreed to, as follows: On page 5, beginning on line 6, strike ``, as well as'' and all that follows through ``AIDS'' on line 8. The resolution (S. Res. 314), as amended, was agreed to. The amendment to the preamble (No. 3097) was agreed to, as follows: (Purpose: To amend the preamble) Strike the second through fourth whereas clauses of the preamble and insert the following: Whereas the 2001 United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS Global mobilized global attention and commitment to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and set out a series of national targets and global actions to reverse the epidemic; Whereas the 2011 United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS addressed the progress of intensified efforts to eliminate HIV and AIDS, including redoubling efforts to achieve by 2015 universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support, and to eliminate gender inequalities and gender-based abuse and violence and increase the capacity of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from the risk of HIV infection; The preamble, as amended, was agreed to.…”