Today I received an email from Michael Sneddon, older Brother of David Sneddon who disappeared 13 years ago while hiking in China’s Yunnan Province and have been captive for 13 years in North Korea.
Dear Susie,
Thank you.
Our family’s website should have been updated to reflect the fact that the House did pass the resolution (The House of Representatives thankfully approved the companion resolution H.Res.891 on September 28, 2016, see attached) before the end of the 2016 session, but the Senate has not done so. Senator Lee reintroduced the resolution into the Senate earlier during this session of the Senate.
It would be helpful for you to ask your members / readers to contact their Senator. In particular it would be helpful to urge Senator Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to again sponsor the companion Senate resolution and get it out of committee for a vote on the floor.
Your readers could write something to the effect to Senator Corker and to other Senators on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:
“Thank you for your efforts at the end of the last congressional session to successfully approve S.Con.Res.30 out of your committee. We greatly appreciated your hard work and we were very sorry to see the resolution fail to achieve passage due to political processes outside of the committee’s control: the unanticipated objection of one anonymous Senator. The resolution would have urged the U.S. government to thoroughly investigate the likely captivity of a fellow U.S. citizen David Sneddon, in North Korea.
“We urge your committee to again support bringing David’s resolution to a vote in the new congressional session.
We hope your committee will again work towards successful passage of the early in this new congressional session. Your continued involvement even after Senate passage of the resolution would also be appreciated to help ensure the U.S. State Department and intelligence community implement the resolution and conduct a substantial investigation – not only for David’s welfare, but also to uphold national security and ensure the future safety of Americans who could be potential kidnapping targets by North Korea.”
Thank you!
Kind regards,
Michael Sneddon
Older Brother of David Sneddon
Dear Susie,
Thank you.
Our family’s website should have been updated to reflect the fact that the House did pass the resolution (The House of Representatives thankfully approved the companion resolution H.Res.891 on September 28, 2016, see attached) before the end of the 2016 session, but the Senate has not done so. Senator Lee reintroduced the resolution into the Senate earlier during this session of the Senate.
It would be helpful for you to ask your members / readers to contact their Senator. In particular it would be helpful to urge Senator Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to again sponsor the companion Senate resolution and get it out of committee for a vote on the floor.
Your readers could write something to the effect to Senator Corker and to other Senators on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:
“Thank you for your efforts at the end of the last congressional session to successfully approve S.Con.Res.30 out of your committee. We greatly appreciated your hard work and we were very sorry to see the resolution fail to achieve passage due to political processes outside of the committee’s control: the unanticipated objection of one anonymous Senator. The resolution would have urged the U.S. government to thoroughly investigate the likely captivity of a fellow U.S. citizen David Sneddon, in North Korea.
“We urge your committee to again support bringing David’s resolution to a vote in the new congressional session.
We hope your committee will again work towards successful passage of the early in this new congressional session. Your continued involvement even after Senate passage of the resolution would also be appreciated to help ensure the U.S. State Department and intelligence community implement the resolution and conduct a substantial investigation – not only for David’s welfare, but also to uphold national security and ensure the future safety of Americans who could be potential kidnapping targets by North Korea.”
Thank you!
Kind regards,
Michael Sneddon
Older Brother of David Sneddon
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