[WCUSP] Humanitarian Aid to Lebanon - Support H.Res.945

[Tura Campanella Cook]

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> From: ADC Austin News <austinnews at adcaustin.org>
> Date: July 27, 2006 11:21:29 PM CDT
> To: turacc at earthlink.net
> Subject: Contact your congressman- Support H.Res. 945, Humanitarian  
> Aid to Lebanon
> Reply-To: ADC Austin News <austinnews at adcaustin.org>
>
>
> 	ADC Action Alert:
> Support H.Res. 945, Humanitarian Aid to Lebanon
>
> Washington, DC | July 27, 2006 | The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination  
> Committee (ADC) urges you to contact your members in the House of  
> Representatives to ask them to support H.Res. 945, proposed by Hon.  
> Sheila Jackson Lee [D-TX-18]. To date, there are only 13 co-sponsors  
> for the resolution, full text of which is included below. If you would  
> like to help bring humanitarian relief to the people of Lebanon, then  
> take action today.
>
> To contact your elected officials, go to:
> http://capwiz.com/adc/dbq/officials/
>
> Please also send a note of thanks to Rep. Jackson-Lee via her website  
> at: http://www.jacksonlee.house.gov
>
>
> H.RES.945
> http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.res.00945:
>
> Expressing deep concern at the ongoing violence in the Middle East,  
> and particularly the current hostilities between the State of Israel  
> and Hezbollah which have intensified since July 12, 2006.
>
> Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas submitted the following resolution. . .
>
> RESOLUTION
>
> Expressing deep concern at the ongoing violence in the Middle East,  
> and particularly the current hostilities between the State of Israel  
> and Hezbollah which have intensified since July 12, 2006.
>
> * Whereas, since the commencement of hostilities, over 350 Lebanese  
> civilians, one third of whom are children according to the United  
> Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, and 17 Israeli civilians, have  
> been killed;
>
> * Whereas vital infrastructure, including hospitals, power plants,  
> bridges, roads, and food and milk factories in Lebanon have been  
> destroyed;
>
> * Whereas over 600,000 people in Lebanon and hundreds of thousands of  
> people in Israel have been displaced;
>
> * Whereas President George W. Bush has expressed great concern over  
> the welfare of the people of Lebanon;
>
> * Whereas United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for  
> an immediate cease-fire;
>
> * Whereas the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator has warned  
> of a humanitarian disaster in Lebanon;
>
> * Whereas the Government of Lebanon has urgently appealed for an  
> immediate cessation to hostilities; and
>
> * Whereas the international community has expressed support for a  
> humanitarian corridor to Lebanon to be opened immediately to get  
> desperately-needed humanitarian supplies to the suffering people of  
> Lebanon:
>
> Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives -
>
> (1) calls for the cessation of the targeting by any side of  
> infrastructure vital to non-combatants, which also increases the  
> likelihood of the loss of innocent civilian life;
>
> (2) calls for a secure humanitarian corridor to be opened immediately  
> via the seaports and airports of Lebanon to alleviate the unnecessary  
> suffering of the people of Lebanon;
>
> (3) calls for an immediate cease-fire in line with the urgent appeals  
> of the Government of Lebanon and the United Nations Secretary General;  
> and
>
> (4) urges a comprehensive and just solution to the Arab-Israeli  
> conflict to ensure that the peoples of the Middle East can live in  
> peace, freedom, and prosperity.
>
>
> List of Current Co-Sponsors for H. Res. 945:
>
> Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
> Rep Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
> Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
> Rep Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
> Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [D-MI-13]
> Rep McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
> Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
> Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
> Rep Hall, Ralph M. [R-TX-4]
> Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
> Rep Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-5]
> Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
>
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