The U.S. House of Representative voted Monday to try to force the United States to seek Palestinian compensation for American victims of terrorism. The measure is part of legislation, expected to pass the full Congress later this week, that also requires the State Department to report to Congress every six months on the status of U.S. efforts to extradite Palestinian terrorists suspected of carrying out attacks since 1993 that killed American citizens.
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