Steve Israel: “I will wrap up. We have heard this evening that this resolution enjoys bipartisan support and support with Members with…”

“I will wrap up. We have heard this evening that this resolution enjoys bipartisan support and support with Members with different ideologies. The cosponsor of this amendment, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee), and I have different ideologies. I tend to lean to the right on national security issues, she tends to lean to the left. But we are united in sending a message around the world that we will not allow genocide to occur. After the Holocaust, the world embraced the slogan, ``Never Again.'' What this resolution does is say that we will explore every option to keep our promise to that slogan so that it is not just words. I also want to point out that the resolution, in addition to having the support of the distinguished ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, Republicans and Democrats, also was supported by Citizens for Global Slogans, Enough, the Project to Abolish Genocide and Mass Atrocities, the Genocide Intervention Network, the Save Darfur Coalition and the Truman National Security Project. This is something that we can all agree on. I am grateful to the chairman of the Armed Services Committee.”