Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives condemning the actions of the Gretna Police Department, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Department and all officers under their command who closed to foot traffic the Greater New Orleans Bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and prevented hundreds of citizens from evacuating the City of New Orleans, and recognizing that at all times and especially during a time of national crisis, that all citizens should be treated in a lawful manner and with dignity and respect.
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Condemns the actions of the Gretna Police Department and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Department in Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (closing the Greater New Orleans Bridge to foot traffic and preventing hundreds of citizens from evacuating New Orleans).
Declares that the civil rights and civil liberties of all individuals should be protected, especially during a time of national crisis. Calls upon local, state, and federal authorities to work to prevent bias and racial insensitivity and to adopt laws and procedures that will protect civil liberties.
Urges the United States to condemn the actions of, and initiate a Department of Justice investigation into misconduct by, the Gretna Police Department.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on November 2, 2005. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
A simple resolution is the business of a single chamber. The House can adopt it on its own, and it is never sent to the other chamber or to the President.
The record's latest action, on February 6, 2006: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
- A vote of the House
What is a simple resolution, exactly?
A simple resolution concerns one chamber only, such as its own rules or an expression of its opinion. The other chamber and the President play no part, and it does not carry the force of law.
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
MAXINE WATERS (D-CA) introduced it on November 2, 2005. No cosponsors are recorded.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on November 2, 2005, 7617 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 7521 days ago, on February 6, 2006.
Measures do not carry over. Anything the 109th Congress has not finished by January 3, 2007 dies when the term ends, and has to be introduced again from the start in the next Congress.
That deadline applies to this measure too, even though it was never headed for the President's desk.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HouseIn committee, no floor vote yet
- SenateAwaits House passage
- PresidentAwaits both chambers