Senate joint resolution · 108th Congress · Did not become law
A joint resolution expressing the sense of Congress with respect to human rights in Central Asia.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 14, 2003
- Committee actionApr 9, 2003
- Passed SenateMay 1, 2003 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 5, 2003 — Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S.J.Res. 3.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S.J. Res. 3, Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to human rights in Central Asia” on April 17, 2003. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on April 9, 2003</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 17, 2003 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/14396
- CBO publication date
- April 17, 2003
- Congress.gov bill record
- S.J.Res. 3, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/sjres/3
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b5d57ce80102dc148daae80ea8eb92281c97fe4ec23f0ca388de279c2c41dd8f
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S.J. Res. 3, Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to human rights in Central Asia” on April 17, 2003. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on April 9, 2003”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 17, 2003 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/14396
- CBO publication date
- April 17, 2003
- Congress.gov bill record
- S.J.Res. 3, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/sjres/3
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b5d57ce80102dc148daae80ea8eb92281c97fe4ec23f0ca388de279c2c41dd8f
PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S.J.Res. 3, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 28, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
6 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 3 Democrats, 1 independent
4 of 6 cosponsors (67%) are from the other party.
Jesse Bingaman (D-NM), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Zell Miller (D-GA), Rick Santorum (R-PA), John Sununu (R-NH).
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 28, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.