WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member issued the following news release:
This week, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) led a group of their Senate colleagues in introducing a 502B privileged resolution requiring the Department of State to report to Congress on increasing violence in the West Bank, including the killings of Americans in the West Bank. Nine Americans have been killed in the West Bank in recent years - and more detained - and none have received accountability or justice from either the Israeli or United States Governments. The Senators' resolution would require the...