[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 3347]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                          HON. TAMMY DUCKWORTH

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 16, 2016

  Ms. DUCKWORTH. Mr. Speaker, on March 14, 2016, on Roll Call Number 
111 on the Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass S. 2426, To direct the 
Secretary of State to develop a strategy to obtain observer status for 
Taiwan in the International Criminal Police Organization, and for other 
purposes, I am not recorded. Had I been present, I would have voted 
``yea'' on S. 2426.
  On March 14, 2016, on Roll Call Number 112 on the Motion to Suspend 
the Rules and Agree, as Amended, to H. Con. Res. 75, Expressing the 
sense of Congress that those who commit or support atrocities against 
Christians and other ethnic and religious minorities and who target 
them specifically for ethnic or religious reasons, are committing, and 
are hereby declared to be committing, ``war crimes'', ``crimes against 
humanity'', and ``genocide'', I am not recorded. Had I been present, I 
would have voted ``yea'' on H. Con. Res. 75.
  On March 14, 2016, on Roll Call Number 113 on the Motion to Suspend 
the Rules and Agree, as Amended, to H. Con. Res. 121, Expressing the 
sense of the Congress condemning the gross violations of international 
law amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity by the 
Government of Syria, its allies, and other parties to the conflict in 
Syria, I am not recorded. Had I been present, I would have voted 
``yea'' on H. Con. Res. 121.

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