[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 188 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 188

  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the 
                    regime of Mu'ammar al-Qadhaffi.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 30, 2011

Mr. Rohrabacher submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
                  to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the 
                    regime of Mu'ammar al-Qadhaffi.

Whereas the people of Libya have risen up in rebellion against the tyrannical 
        rule of Mu'ammar al-Qadhaffi, a man who seized power by force and has 
        ruled by force ever since;
Whereas Qadhaffi has oppressed the people of Libya and squandered their wealth;
Whereas, on March 3, 2011, President Barack Obama said about the situation in 
        Libya, ``The violence must stop; Mu'ammar Qadhaffi has lost the 
        legitimacy to lead and he must leave'', a position he reaffirmed on 
        March 21, 2011;
Whereas, on March 17, 2011, Qadhaffi threatened a civilian massacre by claiming 
        in a radio address, ``We are coming tonight . . . We will have no mercy 
        and no pity with them'';
Whereas Qadhaffi has shown himself to be an enemy of the United States and a 
        threat to international security, including--

    (1) the April 5, 1986, bombing by Libyan agents of the La Belle 
discotheque in West Berlin, which killed 2 United States soldiers and 
wounded 50 others, among some 200 total victims of the blast;

    (2) the December 21, 1988, destruction of Pan Am flight 103 over 
Lockerbie, Scotland, by a bomb planted by a Libyan agent, killing 190 
United States citizens out of the total loss of 243 passengers, 16 crew 
members, and 11 civilians on the ground; and

    (3) a clandestine nuclear weapons program, which was only ended after 
the seizure by the United States Navy of a shipment of uranium-enrichment 
components bound for Libya in October 2003; and

Whereas the Libyan people have not asked for United States ground troops to do 
        their fighting for them, and President Barack Obama has pledged not to 
        deploy ground troops: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That--
            (1) it is the sense of the House of Representatives that--
                    (A) the regime of Mu'ammar al-Qadhaffi is no longer 
                the legitimate government of Libya;
                    (B) the Transitional National Council, based in 
                eastern Libya at Benghazi and headed by Mustafa Abdul 
                Jalil, consisting of those Libyans who have declared 
                their intentions to establish a constitutional, multi-
                party democracy, should be considered the legitimate 
                representatives of the Libyan people and nation;
                    (C) the United States should encourage the post-
                Qadhaffi government to repay the expenses incurred by 
                the United States Armed Forces during military 
                operations undertaken to protect the Libyan people; and
                    (D) as Speaker of the House of Representatives John 
                Boehner wrote in his letter to President Obama on March 
                23, 2011, ``a UN Security Council resolution does not 
                substitute for a U.S. political and military 
                strategy'', the United States course in Libya must be 
                determined in accord with United States interests and 
                values and in consultation with allies; and
            (2) the House of Representatives--
                    (A) supports President Barack Obama's strategy of 
                protecting the Libyan people in their struggle for 
                freedom from the Qadhaffi tyranny without risking the 
                direct intervention of United States ground forces in 
                the Libyan civil war;
                    (B) supports the freezing of the assets of Qadhaffi 
                and his regime wherever they can be found, with the 
                understanding that these assets will be made available 
                to the legitimate representatives of the Libyan people 
                once they have been duly recognized by the United 
                States Government; and
                    (C) calls for the United States in cooperation with 
                its allies to provide the Libyan freedom fighters with 
                the arms, supplies, and other materials needed to oust 
                the Qadhaffi regime from power and liberate the entire 
                country.
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