[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 15 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 15

 Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Mexico City policy should 
                      be permanently established.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 20, 2017

Mr. Lee (for himself, Mr. Daines, Mr. Moran, Mr. Sasse, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. 
   Cruz, and Mr. Paul) submitted the following resolution; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Mexico City policy should 
                      be permanently established.

Whereas section 104(f) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
        2151b(f)) (commonly referred to as the ``Helms amendment'') states that 
        no foreign assistance funds may be used to pay for the performance of 
        abortion as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any 
        person to practice abortions;
Whereas section 518 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
        Programs Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-102; 119 Stat. 2202) 
        (commonly referred to as the ``Siljander Amendment'') states that no 
        foreign assistance funds may be used to lobby for or against abortion;
Whereas, in 1984, President Ronald Reagan established the ``Mexico City 
        Policy,'' which prohibits foreign aid for family planning purposes from 
        being given to foreign nongovernmental organizations that perform 
        abortions or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning, 
        regardless of the source of funding;
Whereas, upon assuming office on January 20, 1989, President George H.W. Bush 
        continued to enforce the Mexico City Policy as established by President 
        Reagan;
Whereas the Mexico City Policy was reestablished on January 22, 2001, by 
        President George W. Bush; and
Whereas, on January 23, 2009, President Barack Obama rescinded the Mexico City 
        Policy: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that--
            (1) the President should immediately reapply and consider 
        improving the Mexico City Policy; and
            (2) Congress should expeditiously consider statutory 
        changes that permanently codify the Mexico City Policy or an 
        improved version thereof.
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