H.Res. 220 · 115th Congress

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding past genocides, and for other purposes.

Stage
In committee
Sponsor
Dave Trott
Introduced
2017-03-22
Latest action
2017-03-22 · Introduced in House

Summary

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States, in seeking to prevent war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide against religious and ethnic groups in the Middle East, should draw upon relevant lessons of the U.S. government, civil society, and humanitarian response to the Armenian Genocide, Seyfo, and the broader genocidal campaign by the Ottoman Empire.