Strongly condemning the United Nations Human Rights Council for ignoring severe human rights abuses in various countries, while choosing to unfairly target Israel by including it as the only country permanently placed on the Council's agenda.

H.RES.557
Introduced: 
July 19, 2007
110
First
September 25, 2007
Passed in House

84 cosponsors.

“A resolution strongly condemning the United Nations Human Rights Council for ignoring severe human rights abuses in various countries, while choosing to unfairly target Israel by including it as the only country permanently placed on the Council's agenda.” Cites other human rights problems in the world that the committee needs to tend to, among them, “between June 10 and 15, 2007, Hamas-armed gunman violently took over the Gaza Strip, executing men, women, and children.”

See also: similar measures H.R. 225 on 1/4/07, H. Amdt. 379 and SA 2712 to H.R. 2764 on 6/18/07, and S. 1698 on 6/26/07.

Passed in House 9/25/07 416-2.

Sponsor/Cosponsors:

Gary Ackerman(D-)Robert Aderholt(R-AL)Todd Akin(R-MO)Michele Marie Bachmann(R-MN)
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Gary Ackerman(D-)Robert Aderholt(R-AL)Todd Akin(R-MO)Michele Marie Bachmann(R-MN)Spencer Bachus(R-AL)Roscoe Bartlett(R-MD)Joe Barton(R-TX)Shelly Berkley(D-NV)Howard Berman(D-CA)Brian Bilbray(R-CA)Rob Bishop(R-UT)Marsha Blackburn(R-TN)Kevin Brady(R-TX)Ginny Brown-Waite(R-FL)Vernon Buchanan(R-FL)Dan Burton(R-IN)Eric Cantor(R-VA)Steve Chabot(R-OH)Tom Cole(R-OK)Mike Conaway(R-TX)Joseph Crowley(D-)Geoff Davis(R-KY)John Doolittle(R-CA)Eliot Engel(D-)Tom Feeney(R-FL)Virginia Foxx(R-NC)Trent Franks(R-AZ)Scott Garrett(R-NJ)Phil Gingrey(R-GA)Louis Jr. Gohmert(R-TX)Charlie Gonzalez(D-TX)Virgil Jr Goode(R-VA)Dean Heller(R-NV)Jeb Hensarling(R-TX)Wally Herger(R-CA)Peter Hoekstra(R-MI)Sam Johnson(R-TX)Timothy Johnson(R-IL)James Jordan(R-OH)Pete King(R-)Steven King(R-IA)Mark Kirk(R-IL)Ron Klein(D-FL)John Kline(R-MN)Douglas Lamborn(R-CO)Tom Lantos(D-CA)John Linder(R-GA)Frank Lobiondo(R-NJ)Jim Marshall(D-GA)Kevin McCarthy(R-CA)Michael McCaul(R-TX)Thaddeus McCotter(R-MI)Patrick McHenry(R-NC)Cathy McMorris Rodgers(R-WA)Michael McNulty(D-)Gary Miller(R-CA)Jeff Miller(R-FL)Sue Myrick(R-NC)Steve Pearce(R-NM)Joe Pitts(R-PA)Ted Poe(R-TX)Jon Porter(R-NV)Tom Price(R-GA)Rick Renzi(R-AZ)Ileana Ros-Lehtinen(R-FL)Peter Roskam(R-IL)Ed Royce(R-CA)Paul Ryan(R-WI)William Sali(R-ID)Linda Sanchez(D-CA)Jim Saxton(R-NJ)Pete Sessions(R-TX)John Shadegg(R-AZ)Brad Sherman(D-CA)John Shimkus(R-IL)Albio Sires(D-NJ)Chris Smith(R-NJ)Lee Terry(R-NE)Tim Walberg(R-MI)Henry Waxman(D-CA)Anthony Weiner(D-)Lynn Westmoreland(R-GA)Robert Wexler(D-FL)Joe Wilson(R-SC)

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Legislation Topics

Gaza Hamas Israel/Israelis UN Human Rights Council United Nations