Friday, October 28, 2005

Congress Condemns Ahmadinejad

JTA News:
Both houses of Congress unanimously condemned the Iranian president’s call to annihilate Israel. On Wednesday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be “wiped off the map.”

A Senate bill condemning the comments, introduced Thursday by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), and a similar House bill, introduced Friday by Reps. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) and Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), passed unanimously.