IV 

110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 449 

Encouraging the Federal Government and State and municipal governments, 

universities, companies, and other institutions in the United States, and 

all Americans to divest from companies that do business with Sudan. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 24, 2007 

Mr. TANCREDO (for himself, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. POE, Mr. MCCOTTER, 

and Mr. WOLF) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 

the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on 

Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 

Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 

the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

RESOLUTION 

Encouraging the Federal Government and State and municipal governments, universities, companies, and other institutions in the United States, and all Americans to 

divest from companies that do business with Sudan. 

Whereas in the 108th Congress, the House of Representatives adopted House Concurrent Resolution 467 on July 

22, 2004, by a unanimous vote of 422–0, which— 

(1) declares that the atrocities unfolding in the 

Darfur region of Sudan are genocide; 

(2) declares that the Government of Sudan has violated the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment 

of the Crime of Genocide; 


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(3) urges the Administration to seriously consider 

multilateral intervention to stop genocide in Darfur 

should the United Nations Security Council fail to act; 

and 

(4) calls on the Administration to impose targeted 

sanctions, including visa bans and the freezing of assets 

of the Sudanese National Congress and affiliated businesses and individuals directly responsible for the atrocities in Darfur; 

Whereas in the 109th Congress, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3127, the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act of 2006, on April 5, 2006, by a vote of 416– 

3, which— 

(1) appeals to the international community, including the United Nations, the European Union, and the 

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), to immediately mobilize sufficient political, military, and financial 

resources to support and expand the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS); and 

(2) blocks assets and restricts travel of any individual the President determines is responsible for acts of 

genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity in the 

Darfur region of Sudan; 

Whereas on September 9, 2004, former Secretary of State 

Colin Powell stated before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate that genocide was being committed 

in the Darfur region of Sudan and that the Government 

of Sudan and the government-supported Janjaweed militias bear responsibility for the genocide; 

Whereas on September 21, 2004, President George W. Bush 

affirmed the Secretary of State’s finding in an address 

before the United Nations General Assembly, stating that 


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the world is witnessing terrible suffering and horrible 

crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan, crimes the Government of the United States has concluded are genocide; 

Whereas, although the Government of the United States currently bans United States companies from conducting 

business operations in Sudan, millions of Americans are 

inadvertently supporting the Government of Sudan by investing in foreign companies that conduct business operations in Sudan that disproportionately benefit the Sudanese regime in Khartoum; 

Whereas the States of Illinois, New Jersey, Oregon, and 

Maine have passed legislation mandating divestment of 

State funds from companies that conduct business operations in Sudan; 

Whereas the States of Connecticut, Ohio, and Vermont have 

passed nonbinding divestment legislation with respect to 

Sudan; 

Whereas Providence, Rhode Island, New Haven, Connecticut, 

and other cities have passed legislation mandating divestment of city funds from companies that conduct business 

operations in Sudan; 

Whereas Amherst, Boston University, Brandeis, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Middlebury, Oberlin, 

Princeton, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, 

Samford, Simmons, Smith, Stanford, Trinity, the University of California, the University of Colorado, the University of Maryland, the University of Pennsylvania, the 

University of Southern California, the University of 

Vermont, the University of Washington, Williams, and 

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tions on investment of their funds in, certain companies 

that conduct business operations in Sudan; 

Whereas divestment has proven effective in similar situations, 

as in 1986, when State pension funds and university endowments were divested from companies that conducted 

business operations in South Africa, which was critical to 

ending apartheid in that country, and by 1994, when the 

first free elections in South Africa took place, a substantial number of States, counties, cities, universities, and 

colleges in the United States had adopted partial or total 

divestment policies; and 

Whereas the business operations of companies in countries 

that perpetrate grave abuses of human rights, especially 

the uniquely monstrous crime of genocide, are of material 

financial concern to United States investors even when 

these operations represent a small fraction of a company’s total business: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) calls upon the Government of Sudan to end 

3 the violence it is perpetrating against the people of 

4 Darfur and enter into peace talks with those fac5 tions in Darfur that are non-signatories of the 

6 Darfur Peace Agreement; and 

7 (2) until such time as the Government of Sudan 

8 has taken the actions described in paragraph (1)— 

9 (A) encourages the Federal Government 

10 and State and municipal governments to divest 

11 from companies that do business with Sudan; 


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1 (B) encourages universities, companies, 

2 and other institutions in the United States to 

3 divest from companies that do business with 

4 Sudan; and 

5 (C) encourages all Americans to divest 

6 from companies that do business with Sudan. 

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