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Democratic senator places hold on resolution slamming UN
[IsraelTimes] Democratic senators are holding up a resolution condemning last month’s United Nations...a formerly good idea gone bad... Security Council condemnation of Israel’s settlement expansion in the West Bank. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., was behind the hold, Jewish Insider reported Wednesday. The report cited Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., who told the newsletter that the Senate resolution’s language is objectionable because it does not recognize that settlements are an obstruction to peace, and that should Durbin lift his hold, he would place his own hold. The resolution, similar to one passed earlier this month in the US House of Representatives, was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with all Republicans and three Democrats voting for it and seven Democrats voting against. Individual senators may put a hold on most types of legislation. It takes 60 senators to override a hold.
Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-27 |
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