Title: A resolution remembering the 5th anniversary of the terrorist attacks at Brussels Airport and the Maalbeek metro station in Belgium and honoring the victims of the terrorist attacks.
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This resolution remembers the fifth anniversary of the March 22, 2016, terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgium. It also honors the memory of Justin Shults, Stephanie Shults, Gail Minglana Martinez, and Bruce Baldwin, the four Americans killed in the attacks, and expresses condolences to the other victims.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 130 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 130

 Remembering the 5th anniversary of the terrorist attacks at Brussels 
  Airport and the Maalbeek metro station in Belgium and honoring the 
                   victims of the terrorist attacks.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 23, 2021

  Mrs. Blackburn (for herself, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Hawley, Mr. 
 Hagerty, and Mr. Cruz) submitted the following resolution; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Remembering the 5th anniversary of the terrorist attacks at Brussels 
  Airport and the Maalbeek metro station in Belgium and honoring the 
                   victims of the terrorist attacks.

Whereas, on March 22, 2016, 35 people were killed and more than 300 people were 
        wounded by 3 bombs that detonated at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, 
        Belgium, and the Maalbeek metro station in Brussels, Belgium (referred 
        to in this preamble as the ``terrorist attacks'');
Whereas Justin Shults, Stephanie Shults, Gail Minglana Martinez, and Bruce 
        Baldwin were Americans who lost their lives, among the many other 
        victims, as a result of the terrorist attacks;
Whereas Justin Shults, an east Tennessee native who was 30 years old and working 
        as an accountant while living in Brussels at the time of the terrorist 
        attacks, was a graduate of Vanderbilt University and a devoted husband 
        to his wife Stephanie;
Whereas Stephanie Shults, a Kentucky native who was 29 years old and working as 
        an accountant while living in Brussels at the time of the terrorist 
        attacks, was a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where she met her 
        husband Justin;
Whereas Gail Minglana Martinez, a Texas native who was 41 years old at the time 
        of the terrorist attacks, was a proud mother of 4 children and wife to 
        her husband Kato, who were all injured in the terrorist attacks; and
Whereas Bruce Baldwin, a Missouri native who was 66 years old at the time of the 
        terrorist attacks, was a husband to his wife Virginia, had worked for 
        the Department of State, and was a member of the Army who served in 
        Vietnam: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) remembers the 5th anniversary of the March 22, 2016, 
        terrorist attacks at Brussels Airport and the Maalbeek metro 
        station in Belgium (referred to in this resolution as the 
        ``terrorist attacks'');
            (2) honors the memory of Justin Shults, Stephanie Shults, 
        Gail Minglana Martinez, and Bruce Baldwin, the 4 Americans who 
        lost their lives in the terrorist attacks;
            (3) expresses its deepest condolences--
                    (A) to the other victims who were killed or wounded 
                as a result of the terrorist attacks;
                    (B) to the families of the victims; and
                    (C) to the home countries of each victim; and
            (4) pledges continued resolve to stand against terrorism 
        and extremism.
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