S.Amdt. 3101
What it does: Adds SEC. __. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S HONORING OF IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD wherever appropriate
Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT)What it changes
1 change to H.R. 1585
Adds SEC. __. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S HONORING OF IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD wherever appropriate
Adds a sectionInserted: SEC. __. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S HONORING OF IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD.
Inserted: (a) Findings.--The Senate makes the following findings:
Inserted: (1) On September 24, 2007, at the request of the Iranian government, Columbia University provided a forum for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak.
Inserted: (2) President Ahmadinejad has referred to the Holocaust as a "myth".
Inserted: (3) President Ahmadinejad has called for the State of Israel to be "wiped off the map".
Inserted: (4) President Ahmadinejad has attempted to justify chants of "Death to America".
Inserted: (5) In a recent interview in which he defended his insulting request to visit the site of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President Ahmadinejad stated that he wanted to discuss the "root causes" of the murder of nearly 3,000 working men and women.
Inserted: (6) General David Petraeus has stated that arms supplies from Iran, including 240mm rockets and explosively formed projectiles, "contributed to a sophistication of attacks that would by no means be possible without Iranian support . . . The evidence is very, very clear.".
Inserted: (7) In 1979, American diplomats and citizens were taken hostage at the United States Embassy in Tehran, with 52 being held captive for 444 days in violation of international law, and several of those captives have identified President Ahmadinejad as 1 of the hostage takers.
Inserted: (8) In 1969, the Columbia University administration expelled all ROTC programs from campus.
Inserted: (9) Even today, Columbia University students wishing to serve their country by participating in an ROTC program must travel to other local colleges to do so.
Inserted: (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that--
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Inserted: (1) it was beneath the dignity of a great American university to provide a public forum, and propaganda opportunity, to a documented anti-Semite and avowed enemy of the United States; and
Inserted: (2) such a forum was particularly inappropriate given Columbia's denial of opportunities to its own students to serve their country through participation in the military's ROTC program.
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SA 3101. Mr. HATCH (for himself and Mr. Coburn) submitted an amendment intended to the bill H.R. 1585, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. __. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S HONORING OF IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD.
(a) Findings.--The Senate makes the following findings:
(1) On September 24, 2007, at the request of the Iranian government, Columbia University provided a forum for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak.
(2) President Ahmadinejad has referred to the Holocaust as a “myth”.
(3) President Ahmadinejad has called for the State of Israel to be “wiped off the map”.
(4) President Ahmadinejad has attempted to justify chants of “Death to America”.
(5) In a recent interview in which he defended his insulting request to visit the site of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President Ahmadinejad stated that he wanted to discuss the “root causes” of the murder of nearly 3,000 working men and women.
(6) General David Petraeus has stated that arms supplies from Iran, including 240mm rockets and explosively formed projectiles, “contributed to a sophistication of attacks that would by no means be possible without Iranian support . . . The evidence is very, very clear.”.
(7) In 1979, American diplomats and citizens were taken hostage at the United States Embassy in Tehran, with 52 being held captive for 444 days in violation of international law, and several of those captives have identified President Ahmadinejad as 1 of the hostage takers.
(8) In 1969, the Columbia University administration expelled all ROTC programs from campus.
(9) Even today, Columbia University students wishing to serve their country by participating in an ROTC program must travel to other local colleges to do so.
(b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) it was beneath the dignity of a great American university to provide a public forum, and propaganda opportunity, to a documented anti-Semite and avowed enemy of the United States; and
(2) such a forum was particularly inappropriate given Columbia's denial of opportunities to its own students to serve their country through participation in the military's ROTC program.
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Senate amendment submitted
September 27, 2007