Joe Crowley: “The elections on November 8th will be an important milestone for Burma's transition.”

I am asking on the underlying resolution before you, is it a privileged resolution? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair announced that the resolution qualified as privileged.

This is not a Republican or a Democratic cause.

And it requires the training of foreign service officers on how to take steps to recognize and prevent genocide and other atrocities. It is not as strong a bill as Representative Wagner and I would have liked it to have been. I know we…

We passed it through the committee. We need to pass it on the floor.