IV 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 291 
Urging the expedient relocation of the United States Embassy in Israel 
to Jerusalem. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 1, 2011 
Mr. LAMBORN submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Urging the expedient relocation of the United States 
Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. 
Whereas each and every sovereign country, under inter-
national custom, may designate its own capital; 
Whereas Jerusalem, the capital of Israel since 1950, has 
never been the capital of any other modern state; 
Whereas Jerusalem has been united under Israel’s govern-
ance since 1967, with guaranteed and full access to holy 
sites for persons of all faiths; 
Whereas since its independence in 1948, the State of Israel 
has been a strategic ally and close friend of the United 
States; 
Whereas the United States maintains its embassy in the 
functioning capital of every country in the world in which 
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the United States maintains full diplomatic relations, ex-
cept in the case of the State of Israel, although the 
United States conducts official business in the city of Je-
rusalem; 
Whereas no other country in the world presently maintains 
its embassy in Israel in the city of Jerusalem; 
Whereas the United States, as a global leader, can set a cou-
rageous and needed example for other countries by mov-
ing its embassy in Israel to the city of Jerusalem; 
Whereas for almost two decades, the Congress of the United 
States has repeatedly and overwhelmingly adopted mul-
tiple resolutions affirming its commitment to Jerusalem’s 
continued status as a unified, undivided city; 
Whereas the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 (Public Law 
104–45; 109 Stat. 398) requires that the United States 
Embassy in Israel be established in Jerusalem by not 
later than May 31, 1999; 
Whereas such Act restricted the allocation of funds in past 
fiscal years for the acquisition and maintenance of build-
ings abroad until the Secretary of State determines and 
reports to Congress that the United States Embassy in 
Jerusalem has officially opened, and authorized not less 
than $100,000,000 for construction and other costs asso-
ciated with the establishment of the United States Em-
bassy in Israel in the capital of Jerusalem; 
Whereas the President has continually suspended section 3 of 
the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995, allowing the Presi-
dent to suspend the requirement that the United States 
Embassy in Israel be established in Jerusalem if the sus-
pension is necessary to protect the national security in-
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terests of the United States, biannually since the enact-
ment of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995; 
Whereas official United States documents and Web sites 
refer to Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel; 
and 
Whereas the Department of State has allocated or expended 
funds for costs related to the physical plant of the United 
States Embassy in Israel, which is located in Tel Aviv, 
as well as the United States Consulate in Jerusalem: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) reaffirms that Jerusalem is and should con-
tinue to be the undivided capital of the State of 
Israel; 
(2) calls upon the President of the United 
States to fully implement the Jerusalem Embassy 
Act of 1995 (Public Law 104–45; 109 Stat. 398) 
and immediately begin to relocate the United States 
Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem; 
(3) encourages the President of the United 
States to urge governments of other countries to im-
mediately and unconditionally recognize Israel’s 
right to exist as a Jewish state and to recognize the 
status of Jerusalem as the undivided capital of 
Israel; and 
(4) urges the Department of State to allocate 
and expend no funding for the physical plant of the 
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United States Embassy in Israel, which is located in 
Tel Aviv, as well as the United States Consulate in 
Jerusalem, until and unless the Department of State 
allocates and expends a proportionate amount of 
funds for the construction of and other costs related 
to the United States Embassy in Jerusalem. 
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