Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SM 1710
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/22/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and
       Domestic Security (Evers) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the resolving clause
    4  and insert:
    5         That the Congress of the United States, by the power vested
    6  in it by Section 8, Article I of the United States Constitution,
    7  is urged to approve an authorization for the use of military
    8  force against al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
    9  (ISIL), and all other global Islamic terrorist organizations
   10  that similarly engage in acts of terrorism against the United
   11  States and its people and against allied and friendly
   12  governments and their populations.
   13         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
   14  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
   15  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
   16  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
   17  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.
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   19  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   20  And the title is amended as follows:
   21         Delete everything before the resolving clause
   22  and insert:
   23                        A bill to be entitled                      
   24         A memorial to the Congress of the United States,
   25         urging Congress to authorize the use of military force
   26         against al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and the
   27         Levant (ISIL), and all other global Islamic terrorist
   28         organizations that similarly engage in acts of
   29         terrorism.
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   31         WHEREAS, the attacks on the United States of September 11,
   32  2001, were organized and financed by al-Qaeda, and
   33         WHEREAS, another global Islamic terrorist organization,
   34  whether known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
   35  (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Islamic
   36  State, or by the Arabic acronym Daesh, claimed responsibility
   37  for coordinated attacks launched against six sites across Paris,
   38  France, on November 13, 2015, resulting in the loss of at least
   39  129 innocent lives and the severe wounding of many hundreds, and
   40         WHEREAS, ISIL systematically targets, kidnaps, and kills
   41  innocent men, women, and children throughout Iraq and Syria,
   42  continues to expand its terror influence, and is responsible for
   43  recent attacks in Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia, and France, and
   44         WHEREAS, al-Qaeda, ISIL, and other global Islamic terrorist
   45  organizations have committed unprovoked acts of war against the
   46  government and people of the United States and against allied
   47  and friendly governments and their populations, NOW, THEREFORE,