While I appreciate the sentiment of the danger of that particular clause in the amendment, both those witnesses who were referred to by Ms. McPherson also stated that, in its entirety, the legislation was both dangerous and unnecessary.
If we go through the actual testimony from both Ms. Symons of Hostage International and Mr. Tim McSorley of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, we see that they were very clear that there was no necessity for this bill under legislation and that it also had many dangers.
For the precise reason that I listened to the witnesses who were cited, we'll be voting against this amendment.