Member of Congress

Steve Israel

Role
Former Representative
State
NY
Party
Democrat

Cosponsored legislation

H.Res. 121 · 110th Congress

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of Japan should formally acknowledge, apologize, and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner for its Imperial Armed Force's coercion of young women into sexual slavery, known to the world as "comfort women", during its colonial and wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands from the 1930s through the duration of World War II.

Passed chamber resolutionStatus updated 2007-07-30