Edward Markey
http://democracyrising.us/content/view/184/165/"The amendment
only applies to funds in the (2005) supplemental funding bill."
Earl Blumenauer
http://blumenauer.house.gov/newsroom/PressRelease.aspx?NewsID=1185http://blumenauer.house.gov/issues/Issue.aspx?IssueID=13&SubIssueID=117more info
March 17, 2005
House Votes to Reaffirm Ban on Torture
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 1:50 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) --
"The House voted Wednesday to ban the use of federal money to transfer terror suspects to countries that are believed to torture prisoners, a practice that has drawn fierce criticism of the Bush administration.
The
largely symbolic amendment reaffirms a 1994 treaty barring torture of detainees in American custody, whether in the United States or in countries known for human rights violations. The measure was approved 420-2 as part of an $81.4 billion emergency spending package for combat and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Voting against the amendment were Republican Reps. Robin Hayes of North Carolina and Mark Souder of Indiana.
The amendment, authored by Democratic Reps. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Edward Markey of Massachusetts, comes in the wake of media accounts alleging that the U.S. government has secretly sent detainees to foreign countries where they have been tortured for information."
H.R. 952 <109th>: Torture Outsourcing Prevention Act (the Markey bill)
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-952http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.00952:H.R.952
Title: To prohibit the transfer or return of persons by the United States, for the purpose of detention, interrogation, trial, or otherwise, to countries where torture or other inhuman treatment of persons occurs.
Sponsor: Rep Markey, Edward J.
(introduced 2/17/2005) Cosponsors (77)
Latest Major Action: 3/17/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Relations.
and there it remains
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http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t20332-250.html