Thread: House Committee Passes Muslim Brotherhood Bill It’s Now Time for the Senate to Act

ACTION ALERT

Send an email or make a phone call to your U.S. Senator in support of this bill.

Last week, the House Judiciary Committee passed a bill that calls on the State Department to classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group. The bill, H.R. 3892, the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act, introduced by Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-25), was voted out of committee by a 17-10 party-line vote. We expect it to be brought before the full House for a vote.

Specifically, H.R. 3892 states that it is the “sense of Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood meets the criteria for classification as a foreign terrorist organization.” As Amended by the House Committee, Secretary of State John Kerry would have 60 days to issue a detailed report to Congress indicating whether the Brotherhood meets the criteria qualifying it as a terrorist group. The Senate's version of the bill is S. 2230 and the details about the legislation can be found HERE.

This bill is a very important one. Once signed into law, it would be a crime for anyone in the U.S. to provide material support to the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Treasury Department could force banks to block financial transactions related to the Brotherhood. The bill lists U.S. groups that include the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) as groups under the control of the Muslim Brotherhood.

We thank the House of Representatives for its leadership on this issue. It is now time for the Senate to act. That chamber's companion bill, S. 2230, the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2015 has been introduced by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). At this time, it has only two cosponsors, Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Ron Johnson (R-WI).

We need members of the U.S. Senate to hear from you. Please tell them to demonstrate the leadership that we’ve seen in the House by acting quickly on this bill.

We know you are busy, so we’ve done all of the work for you. All you have to do is add your individual information and your voice will go directly to your two U.S. Senators. [If you have Senator Hatch or Johnson as your representative, please be sure to add a quick "thank you" for cosponsoring the legislation.]

Thank you for ALL that you do for our great nation. If each of us does just a little, together we can accomplish a lot.

Sincerely,



Bill Detail: S 2230

Bill has only 2 other senators signing on. Even if the house approves, the senate will be difficult to pass it.

Would be wonderful if passed by both houses but CAIR is going to be screaming bloody murder.

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