Political Quotes

“I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to; the committee-reported amendment to the preamble be agreed to; the preamble, as amended, be agreed to; and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The resolution (S. Res. 165) was agreed to. The committee-reported amendment to the preamble was agreed to. The preamble, as amended, was agreed to. The resolution with its preamble, as amended, reads as follows S. Res. 165 Whereas United States citizen Paul Whelan is a resident of Novi, Michigan, and a United States Marine Corps veteran; Whereas Paul Whelan traveled to Moscow for the wedding of a personal friend on December 22, 2018; Whereas Russia's Federal Security Service arrested Paul Whelan at the Metropol Hotel in Moscow on December 28, 2018, and charged him with espionage; Whereas the Federal Security Service has never provided any evidence of supposed wrongdoing; Whereas Paul Whelan was imprisoned in Lefortovo Prison and was held there for more than 19 months after his arrest in pre-trial detention; Whereas the Federal Security Service has not provided any evidence of supposed wrongdoing; Whereas a Moscow court extended Paul Whelan's pre-trial detention multiple times without publicly presenting justification or evidence of wrongdoing; Whereas even Paul Whelan's Federal Security Service- appointed lawyer, Vladimir Zherebenkov, said on May 24,…”