[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 504 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 504

 To direct the Senate Legal Counsel to appear as amicus curiae in the 
name of the Senate in Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky, By His Parents and 
Guardians, Ari Z. and Naomi Siegman Zivotofsky v. John Kerry, Secretary 
                           of State (S. Ct.).


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 16, 2014

   Mr. Reid (for himself and Mr. McConnell) submitted the following 
             resolution; which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 To direct the Senate Legal Counsel to appear as amicus curiae in the 
name of the Senate in Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky, By His Parents and 
Guardians, Ari Z. and Naomi Siegman Zivotofsky v. John Kerry, Secretary 
                           of State (S. Ct.).

Whereas, in the case of Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky, By His Parents and 
        Guardians, Ari Z. and Naomi Siegman Zivotofsky v. John Kerry, Secretary 
        of State, No. 13-628, pending in the Supreme Court of the United States, 
        the constitutionality of section 214(d) of the Foreign Relations 
        Authorization Act, FY 2003, Pub. L. No. 107-228, 116 Stat. 1350, 1366 
        (2002), has been placed in issue;
Whereas, pursuant to sections 703(c), 706(a), and 713(a) of the Ethics in 
        Government Act of 1978, 2 U.S.C. 288b(c), 288e(a), and 288l(a), the 
        Senate may direct its counsel to appear as amicus curiae in the name of 
        the Senate in any legal action in which the powers and responsibilities 
        of Congress under the Constitution are placed in issue: Now, therefore, 
        be it
    Resolved, That the Senate Legal Counsel is directed to appear as 
amicus curiae on behalf of the Senate in the case of Menachem Binyamin 
Zivotofsky, By His Parents and Guardians, Ari Z. and Naomi Siegman 
Zivotofsky v. John Kerry, Secretary of State, to defend the 
constitutionality of section 214(d) of the Foreign Relations 
Authorization Act, FY 2003.
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