Florida Senate - 2016                             CS for SM 1710
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and
       Domestic Security; and Senator Evers
       
       583-03910-16                                          20161710c1
    1                           Senate Memorial                         
    2         A memorial to the Congress of the United States,
    3         urging Congress to authorize the use of military force
    4         against al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and the
    5         Levant (ISIL), and all other global Islamic terrorist
    6         organizations that similarly engage in acts of
    7         terrorism.
    8  
    9         WHEREAS, the attacks on the United States of September 11,
   10  2001, were organized and financed by al-Qaeda, and
   11         WHEREAS, another global Islamic terrorist organization,
   12  whether known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
   13  (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Islamic
   14  State, or by the Arabic acronym Daesh, claimed responsibility
   15  for coordinated attacks launched against six sites across Paris,
   16  France, on November 13, 2015, resulting in the loss of at least
   17  129 innocent lives and the severe wounding of many hundreds, and
   18         WHEREAS, ISIL systematically targets, kidnaps, and kills
   19  innocent men, women, and children throughout Iraq and Syria,
   20  continues to expand its terror influence, and is responsible for
   21  recent attacks in Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia, and France, and
   22         WHEREAS, al-Qaeda, ISIL, and other global Islamic terrorist
   23  organizations have committed unprovoked acts of war against the
   24  government and people of the United States and against allied
   25  and friendly governments and their populations, NOW, THEREFORE,
   26  
   27  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   28  
   29         That the Congress of the United States, by the power vested
   30  in it by Section 8, Article I of the United States Constitution,
   31  is urged to approve an authorization for the use of military
   32  force against al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
   33  (ISIL), and all other global Islamic terrorist organizations
   34  that similarly engage in acts of terrorism against the United
   35  States and its people and against allied and friendly
   36  governments and their populations.
   37         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
   38  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
   39  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
   40  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
   41  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.