[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3216 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3216

To authorize the President to issue letters of marque and reprisal with 
    respect to certain acts of air piracy upon the United States on 
   September 11, 2001, and other similar acts of war planned for the 
                                future.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2007

   Mr. Paul introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the President to issue letters of marque and reprisal with 
    respect to certain acts of air piracy upon the United States on 
   September 11, 2001, and other similar acts of war planned for the 
                                future.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Marque and Reprisal Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. ISSUANCE OF LETTERS OF MARQUE AND REPRISAL.

    The President of the United States is authorized and requested to 
commission, under officially issued letters of marque and reprisal, so 
many of privately armed and equipped persons and entities as, in his 
judgment, the service may require, with suitable instructions to the 
leaders thereof, to employ all means reasonably necessary to seize 
outside the geographic boundaries of the United States and its 
territories the person and property of Osama bin Laden, of any al Qaeda 
co-conspirator, and of any conspirator with Osama bin Laden and al 
Qaeda who are responsible for the air piratical aggressions and 
depredations perpetrated upon the United States of America on September 
11, 2001, and for any planned future air piratical aggressions and 
depredations or other acts of war upon the United States of America and 
her people.

SEC. 3. SECURITY BOND REQUIRED.

    No letter of marque and reprisal shall be issued by the President 
under this Act without requiring the posting of a security bond in such 
amount as the President shall determine is sufficient to ensure that 
the letter be executed according to the terms and conditions thereof.
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