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Source: http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/25/1008696/berman-ros-lehtinen-block-goldstone-report
U.S. Lawmakers: Block Goldstone Report
[JTA] Top Democratic and Republican foreign affairs leaders in the U.S. Congress are calling on the Obama administration to quash the Goldstone report. A non-binding resolution introduced last Friday by U.S. Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the committee's ranking Republican, "calls on the President and the Secretary of State to strongly and unequivocally oppose any further consideration of the 'Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict' and any other measures stemming from this report in multilateral fora." The administration is opposed to furthering the report in international committees but has stopped short of unequivocally blocking such consideration.