US Congress Senate Resolution 220 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on July 13 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-07-13 - Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4001-4002)
Pending: Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

A resolution expressing solidarity with Falun Gong practitioners who have lost lives, freedoms, and rights for adhering to their beliefs and practices and condemning the practice of non-consenting organ harvesting, and for other purposes. Expresses solidarity with Falun Gong practitioners and their families for the lives, freedoms, and rights they lost for adhering to their beliefs and practices. Emphasizes to the government of China that freedom of religion includes the right of Falun Gong practitioners to practice freely in China. Condemns the practice of non-consenting organ harvesting in China. Calls upon: (1) the Communist Party of China (CPC) to cease its campaign to persecute Falun Gong practitioners and release all such practitioners who have been confined, detained, or imprisoned for pursuing their right to exercise their spiritual beliefs; (2) the government of China and the CPC to end the practice of organ harvesting from all prisoners of conscience; and (3) China to allow an independent and transparent investigation into organ transplant abuses.

A resolution expressing solidarity with Falun Gong practitioners who have lost lives, freedoms, and rights for adhering to their beliefs and practices and condemning the practice of non-consenting organ harvesting, and for other purposes.

Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Jerry Moran [R-KS]	Sen. Bill Cassidy [R-LA]	Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]
Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Marco Rubio [R-FL]
Sen. Thom Tillis [R-NC]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Roy Blunt [R-MO]
Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]	Sen. Ted Cruz [R-TX]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Tom Cotton [R-AR]
Sen. Angus King [I-ME]	Sen. David Perdue [R-GA]	Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-07-13	Senate	Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4001-4002)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-resolution/220/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/sres220/BILLS-115sres220is.pdf