Recognizing Charleston as the appropriate host city for the 2027 annual meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly.

Would put the House on record asking that Charleston keep the 2027 OSCE assembly meeting. It is an opinion, with no force of law.

The details

Most people would see no change in daily life. Nothing in law changes if the House adopts this. A simple resolution is one chamber stating a view. It spends no money and binds no one, here or abroad. The House would say that Charleston, South Carolina should keep the 2027 annual meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. That body is made up of lawmakers from the member countries of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a regional security group. Charleston was already scheduled to host the meeting. The resolution asks the assembly to let the city go ahead as planned. It does not say what put that plan in doubt. The whereas clauses give the sponsors' reasons. The text says Charleston has the convention center, hotels, and interpreters the meeting needs. It calls holding the meeting in South Carolina a tribute to the late Senator Lindsey Olin Graham. It notes that the United States has not hosted the assembly's annual session since 2005 in Washington, DC. Those are the resolution's own claims. The assembly picks its own host city, and the House cannot make that choice for it.