Skip to main content
HRES 99 106th Congress House International Affairs Administration of justice Ambassadors Caribbean area Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Conferences Cuba Democracy Dissenters Europe European Union Freedom of the press Government Operations and Politics Human rights International agencies Labor and Employment Labor unions Latin America Law Opposition (Political science)

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the human rights situation in Cuba.

Introduced: March 9, 1999 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 12 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 23, 1999
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Mar 23, 1999
On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
Mar 23, 1999
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
Mar 23, 1999
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H. Res. 99.
Mar 23, 1999
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1525-1531)
Mar 23, 1999
Ms. Ros-Lehtinen moved to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended.
Mar 17, 1999
Committee Agreed to Seek Consideration Under Suspension of the Rules, (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Mar 17, 1999
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Mar 15, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights.
Mar 15, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.
Mar 9, 1999
Introduced in House
Mar 9, 1999
Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Condemns the repressive crackdown by the Government of Cuba against the internal opposition and independent press. Expresses admiration and solidarity with the internal opposition and independent press of Cuba.

Demands that the Government of Cuba release all political prisoners, legalize all political parties, labor unions, and the press, and schedule free and fair elections.

Urges the Administration, at the 55th session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland, to take all steps necessary to secure international support for, and passage of, a resolution which condemns the Cuban Government for its gross abuses of the rights of the Cuban people and for continued violations of international human rights standards and legal principles. Calls for the reinstatement of the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Cuba.

Declares the acts of the Castro regime to be in violation of the charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Urges the President to: (1) nominate a special envoy to advocate, internationally, for the establishment of the rule of law for the Cuban people; and (2) actively seek support from individual nations, as well as the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the European Union, and all other international organizations to call for the establishment of the rule of law for the Cuban people.

Declares that the rule of law for the Cuban people should guarantee each and every fundamental and inalienable right.

What's happening now March 23, 1999

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

 Committees of jurisdiction 3