Senators are planning a bipartisan resolution condemning the Jan. 7 terrorist attack on the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo in Paris that killed 12 people.
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., announced the plan on Monday, though the resolution won’t be officially introduced until Tuesday, leadership aides said.
“In their hour of grief, in a short while the Senate will consider a resolution condemning the series of terrorist attacks that have shaken France,” Durbin said Monday.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is cosponsoring the bill with Durbin.
Durbin said the resolution will offer condolences to the families and victims of the attack and will express “our deep commitment to the universal right of freedom of expression, a freedom for which the writers and artists of Charlie Hebdo gave their lives.”
Lawmakers Monday signed condolence books stationed in both the House and Senate.
Such resolutions are typically bicameral. The House, however, has not announced its own plans to offer a similar resolution.
