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Detail for 2006 Senate Roll Call Vote 258

Vote Date
28-Sep-2006
Yeas : Nays
46 : 53

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Friends Committee on National Legislation

Kennedy Amendment to the Military Commissions Act.

The Kennedy Amendment provides for the protection of United States persons in the implementation of treaty obligations. It expresses to other signers of the Geneva Conventions that the U.S. considers the kinds of torture banned in the Army Field Manual to be war crimes, and that if anyone uses these methods against U.S. troops or agents, we will consider the action a war crime.

Citizens for Global Solutions

S.A. 5088 to S. 3930 Military Commissions Act of 2006 / Geneva Conventions.

The Kennedy amendment emphasized U.S. commitment to Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which prohibits cruel and degrading interrogation techniques and demonstrates to other countries U.S. intolerance of such abuses by declaring an act a violation of the Geneva Conventions if inhumane interrogation techniques were inflicted upon American personnel involved in the war on terror.
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