[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 838 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 838

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary 
of State should not accept the credentials of any representative of the 
  Government of Libya until the Government of Libya has fully met its 
 financial commitments to the families of the victims of Pan Am Flight 
103 and that the President should urge the Government of Libya to make 
a good faith effort to resolve other outstanding cases of United States 
         victims of terrorism sponsored or supported by Libya.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 24, 2006

  Mr. Ferguson (for himself and Mr. Andrews) submitted the following 
   resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International 
                               Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary 
of State should not accept the credentials of any representative of the 
  Government of Libya until the Government of Libya has fully met its 
 financial commitments to the families of the victims of Pan Am Flight 
103 and that the President should urge the Government of Libya to make 
a good faith effort to resolve other outstanding cases of United States 
         victims of terrorism sponsored or supported by Libya.

Whereas the Government of Libya has not to date made a good faith effort to 
        resolve the claims of members of the United States Armed Forces and 
        other United States citizens who were injured in the April 6, 1986, 
        bombing of the LaBelle Discotheque in Berlin, Germany, and the claims of 
        family members of the service men and women killed in that bombing or to 
        resolve other outstanding cases of United States victims of terror 
        sponsored or supported by Libya;
Whereas, on December 21, 1988, terrorists from Libya bombed Pan Am Flight 103 
        over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people, including 189 Americans;
Whereas, on May 29, 2002, the Government of Libya offered $2,700,000,000 to 
        settle claims by the families of the 270 people killed aboard Pan Am 
        Flight 103, representing $10,000,000 for each victim of the Pan Am 
        Flight 103 bombing;
Whereas, on August 15, 2003, Libya's Ambassador to the United Nations, Ahmed 
        Own, submitted a letter to the United Nations Security Council formally 
        accepting ``responsibility for the action of its officials'' in relation 
        to the Lockerbie bombing;
Whereas, on May 15, 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced her 
        intention to remove Libya from the list of countries that sponsor 
        terrorism and to establish diplomatic relations with the Government of 
        Libya; and
Whereas the families of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 have not yet received 
        the final $2,000,000 payment promised by the Government of Libya: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved,  That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that--
            (1) it remains an important priority for further 
        improvement in the relations between the United States and 
        Libya that the Government of Libya make a good faith effort to 
        resolve all outstanding claims of United States victims of 
        terrorism sponsored or supported by Libya;
            (2) the Secretary of State should not accept the 
        credentials of any representative of the Government of Libya 
        until the Government of Libya has fully met all of its 
        financial commitments to each of the personal representatives 
        of United States victims of Pan Am Flight 103 who accepted the 
        settlement with the Government of Libya; and
            (3) the President should urge the Government of Libya to 
        make an good faith effort to resolve--
                    (A) the claims of members of the United States 
                Armed Forces and other United States citizens who were 
                injured in the LaBelle Discotheque bombing and the 
                claims of family members of the service men and women 
                killed in that bombing; and
                    (B) all other outstanding cases of United States 
                victims of terror sponsored or supported by Libya.
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