THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE RESOLUTION

INTRODUCED BY R. TAYLOR, GERBER, BELFANTI, BOYD, BOYLE, BRADFORD, BRIGGS, BROOKS, CLYMER, D. COSTA, CUTLER, DePASQUALE, FRANKEL, FREEMAN, HORNAMAN, JOSEPHS, KAUFFMAN, KORTZ, MILLARD, MURT, MUSTIO, O'NEILL, PYLE, READSHAW, SANTARSIERO, SCHRODER, SHAPIRO, SIPTROTH, M. SMITH, SWANGER, THOMAS, VULAKOVICH, YOUNGBLOOD AND ROHRER, JUNE 30, 2010

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, JUNE 30, 2010  

A RESOLUTION

Declaring that Iran's nuclear weapons program represents a

severe threat to American national interest and memorializing

the President and the Congress of the United States to take

immediate action to ensure that Iran does not attain nuclear

capability.

WHEREAS, A nuclear-armed Iran would likely lead to nuclear

proliferation elsewhere in the region and around the globe and

would pose unacceptable threats to global security while

fundamentally altering the strategic balance of the Middle East;

and

WHEREAS, In defiance of United Nations Security Council

resolutions, Iran has refused to hold serious talks with the

United States and other world powers while continuing to enrich

uranium; and

WHEREAS, Iran dismissed the 2009 end-of-the-year deadline set

by the administration and its allies for Tehran to accept a deal

offered by the United Nations to export the majority of its

enriched uranium in exchange for nuclear fuel; and

WHEREAS, Iran continues to aggressively expand its nuclear

capabilities, rather than suspend its enrichment of uranium as

required by multiple United Nations Security Council

resolutions; therefore be it

RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania urge the President and the Congress

of the United States to reaffirm boldly and unambiguously that

the United States can and will prevent Iran from acquiring a

nuclear weapons capability, reverse the practice under which the

United States government has awarded at least $107 billion over

the past decade in Federal contracts to companies investing in

or doing business in Iran and join with those allies who are

prepared for action to immediately impose crippling sanctions on

Iran; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives urge the United

States government to enforce the Iran Sanctions Act, originally

passed in 1996, and sanction foreign entities investing more

than $20 million a year in Iran's energy sector and that a

congressional conference committee be formed to meld the Senate

and House of Representatives versions of legislation for final

passage of sanction legislation.