House bill demands tougher line against Hezbollah
Bipartisan legislation introduced Monday in the House Foreign Affairs Committee pushes sanctions against financial institutions and satellite providers that aid Hezbollah.
House lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill Monday aimed at cutting off money and propaganda support for Hezbollah.
The Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act urges the Obama administration to turn the screws on financial institutions — including the central banks of Lebanon and other nations — as well as media providers accused to aiding the Shiite militia and its media arm.
House Foreign Affairs Committee members Mark Meadows, R-N.C., and Brad Schneider, D-Ill., Introduced the legislation, which also has the support of committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., and ranking member Eliot Engel, D-N.Y.
"It shall be the policy of the United States," the bill states, "to prevent Hezbollah's global logistics and financial network from operating in order to curtail funding of its domestic and international activities; and utilize all available diplomatic, legislative, and executive avenues to combat the criminal activities of Hezbollah as a means to block that organization's ability to fund its global terrorist activities."
