[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9593]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       ONGOING VIOLENCE IN SYRIA

  (Mr. ISRAEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ISRAEL. Mr. Speaker, since March of 2011 in Syria, 90,000 people 
have been killed, millions have been displaced internally, hundreds of 
thousands have fled, and between 100 and 150 people have been murdered 
by Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons.
  We can debate what we should do and how far we should go, but there 
is one thing that we can all agree on, and that is legislation that my 
colleague from Oklahoma, Congressman Tom Cole, and I have introduced on 
a bipartisan basis that would bring Bashar al-Assad to the 
International Criminal Court where he will be prosecuted for war crimes 
and crimes against humanity. This is an example of bipartisan 
cooperation and accord on a challenging foreign policy crisis.
  I urge my colleagues to cosponsor the Cole-Israel resolution and pass 
it immediately.

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