Political Quotes

“I ask the Chair to lay before the Senate a message from the House with respect to S. 1959. The Presiding officer laid before the Senate the following message from the House of Representatives: Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S. 1959) entitled ``An Act to require a report on the designation of the Haqqani Network as a foreign terrorist organization and for other purposes,'' do pass with the following amendment: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Haqqani Network Terrorist Designation Act of 2012''. SEC. 2. REPORT ON DESIGNATION OF THE HAQQANI NETWORK AS A FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings: (1) A report of the Congressional Research Service on relations between the United States and Pakistan states that ``[t]he terrorist network led by Jalaluddin Haqqani and his son Sirajuddin, based in the FATA, is commonly identified as the most dangerous of Afghan insurgent groups battling U.S.- led forces in eastern Afghanistan''. (2) The report further states that, in mid-2011, the Haqqanis undertook several high-visibility attacks in Afghanistan. First, a late June assault on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul by 8 Haqqani gunmen and suicide bombers left 18 people dead. Then, on September 10, a truck bomb attack on a United States military base by Haqqani fighters in the Wardak province injured 77 United States troops and killed 5 Afghans.…”