Statement on Darfur: "The administration has also put focus on Darfur and what's going on there. And I think, if I can make a recommendation, they should pay attention to the advice of Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times. Not exactly a commentator that I agree with all the time, or I imagine agrees with me. But he wrote a column the other day, he wrote a column the other day that displays something that we all have to embrace. He understands, like I understand and I believe the president understands, that genocide in Africa is no different than genocide in Asia or Europe or America or any place else. Human life.

"And there's an opportunity to make a point here that can be very, very dramatic. The administration should seize on his recommendation of several days ago to hold a summit, to bring together the countries that can help, that can help stem the tide of genocide, end it, and kind of bring them to a solution, bring them to a solution in which we demonstrate that we can do positive things and good things, and things in which we bring about security for people and decency for people. There's a community of purpose here, and America should seize it and bring it together and play a role here."

Sen. McCain co-sponsored S. Res. 531, a resolution to urge the President to appoint a Presidential Special Envoy for Sudan. Wrote a September 2006 Washington Post editorial entitled "Rescue Darfur Now" with former Senator Bob Dole.

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Sen. Brownback co-sponsored a $60 million amendment allocated toward helping establish a UN peacekeeping force in the region. The money was part of a $94.5 billion emergency spending bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and aid to Gulf Coast hurricane victims. Darfur is a major cause for Senator Brownback and he often discusses it at length.

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Criticized Sudan's position on the UN Human Right's panel in a 2005 National Review Article. Criticized the UN's response to Darfur in June 2005 testimony to Congress. He may also have called for a militarily enforced no-fly zone over Darfur.

Rep. Tancredo co-chairs the Sudan Caucus. He sponsored the Comprehensive Peace in Sudan Act and called for a no-fly zone to be enforced by the US and NATO in 2005.

On June 22, 2006, Sen. Clinton sponsored an amendment to the National Defense Authorizations Act (S. 2766). She has also called on President Bush to enforce a no-fly zone over Darfur with US planes and to provide active support to peace keeping efforts in the region.

Senator Obama worked with Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) on the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act, a version of which was signed into law. Senator Obama has traveled to the United Nations to meet with Sudanese officials and visited refugee camps on the Chad-Sudan border to raise international awareness of the ongoing humanitarian disaster there. He also worked with Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) to secure $20 million for the African Union peacekeeping mission.

Has called for a NATO force to intervene in Darfur and circulated an online petition to that effect.

He traveled to Sudan to negotiate a temporary cease fire with Sudan's leader in January on a mission sponsored by the Save Darfur Coaltion. Has stated "We need to step up to the plate on Darfur, and let the world know that when genocide threatens, the United States will lead the world to stop it."

Has consistently supported measures aimed at stoping the genocide in Darfur.

Sen. Biden was instrumental in passing the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act in the Senate. He introduced a successful amendment to the supplemental appropriations bill to establish an Office of the Special Envoy for Sudan whose primary responsibility would be to push implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement.

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