Senator Amy Klobuchar
The U-S Senate today voted 97-1 to override President Obama’s veto of a bill allowing lawsuits against foreign sponsors of terrorism.
The House is expected to follow suit. The bill would’ve allowed survivors and families of victims to sue Saudi Arabia based on claims the country played a role in the 9-11 attacks.
U-S Senator Amy Klobuchar was among lawmakers to vote in favor of overriding the veto. She says “we will never forget the horror and heartbreak of that day 15 years ago when terrorists committed an act of unspeakable evil against the American people-including Minnesota’s own Tom Burnett, Jr., Max Beilke, Gary Koecheler, and Gordon Aamoth, Jr.” Klobuchar says she “supported overriding the veto because this legislation – that passed Congress without opposition – would allow victims and their families to hold the people who helped fund these terrible acts of terror accountable.”