US-SR56-2017
U.S. Congress · SR 56 · 2017
A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States should remain a global leader in welcoming and providing refuge to refugees and asylum seekers and that no person should be banned from entering the United States because of their nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender.
Pro-LGBTQ+Failed
- Bill key
- US-SR56-2017
- State
- U.S. Congress
- Session
- 2017
- Introduced
- Last recorded status
- introduced
- Citation (Bluebook)
- S. Res. 56, 115th Cong. (2017), https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-resolution/56/all-info.
- Short citation
- S. Res. 56.
- Topics
- Tags
Summary
A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States should remain a global leader in welcoming and providing refuge to refugees and asylum seekers and that no p…
Sponsors
| Name | Party | Office | District | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick Leahy | Democratic | Senator | SD-VT | Primary sponsor |
30 co-sponsors
| Name | Party | Office | District | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeanne Shaheen | Democratic | Senator | SD-NH | Co-sponsor |
| Mazie Hirono | Democratic | Senator | SD-HI | Co-sponsor |
| Cory Booker | Democratic | Senator | SD-NJ | Co-sponsor |
| Jack Reed | Democratic | Senator | SD-RI | Co-sponsor |
| Thomas Carper | Democratic | Senator | SD-DE | Co-sponsor |
| Elizabeth Warren | Democratic | Senator | SD-MA | Co-sponsor |
| Bernard Sanders | Independent | Senator | SD-VT | Co-sponsor |
| Christopher Coons | Democratic | Senator | SD-DE | Co-sponsor |
| Chris Van Hollen | Democratic | Senator | SD-MD | Co-sponsor |
| Kirsten Gillibrand | Democratic | Senator | SD-NY | Co-sponsor |
| Jeff Merkley | Democratic | Senator | SD-OR | Co-sponsor |
| Richard Blumenthal | Democratic | Senator | SD-CT | Co-sponsor |
| Tom Udall | Democratic | Senator | SD-NM | Co-sponsor |
| Edward Markey | Democratic | Senator | SD-MA | Co-sponsor |
| Ron Wyden | Democratic | Senator | SD-OR | Co-sponsor |
| Michael Bennet | Democratic | Senator | SD-CO | Co-sponsor |
| Amy Klobuchar | Democratic | Senator | SD-MN | Co-sponsor |
| Al Franken | Democratic | Senator | SD-MN | Co-sponsor |
| Sherrod Brown | Democratic | Senator | SD-OH | Co-sponsor |
| Christopher Murphy | Democratic | Senator | SD-CT | Co-sponsor |
| Sheldon Whitehouse | Democratic | Senator | SD-RI | Co-sponsor |
| Brian Schatz | Democratic | Senator | SD-HI | Co-sponsor |
| Heidi Heitkamp | Democratic | Senator | SD-ND | Co-sponsor |
| Joe Donnelly | Democratic | Senator | SD-IN | Co-sponsor |
| Martin Heinrich | Democratic | Senator | SD-NM | Co-sponsor |
| Dianne Feinstein | Democratic | Senator | SD-CA | Co-sponsor |
| Richard Durbin | Democratic | Senator | SD-IL | Co-sponsor |
| Robert Casey | Democratic | Senator | SD-PA | Co-sponsor |
| Gary Peters | Democratic | Senator | SD-MI | Co-sponsor |
| Charles Schumer | Democratic | Senator | SD-NY | Co-sponsor |
Bill text
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