<story><title>Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout If Congress Passes 9/11 Bill</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-warns-ofeconomic-fallout-if-congress-passes-9-11-bill.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>What does the bill actually, you know, do? The article has neither a link to its text nor an identifying number, and the name, &amp;quot;9&amp;#x2F;11 bill&amp;quot;, is not a good enough search term to be able to easily find it. It&amp;#x27;s kind of absurd to try to discuss the bill, or political machinations surrounding it, without getting that basic information down first.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakebaker</author><text>It appears to be the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism act:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.congress.gov&amp;#x2F;bill&amp;#x2F;114th-congress&amp;#x2F;senate-bill&amp;#x2F;2040&amp;#x2F;text&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.congress.gov&amp;#x2F;bill&amp;#x2F;114th-congress&amp;#x2F;senate-bill&amp;#x2F;204...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout If Congress Passes 9/11 Bill</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-warns-ofeconomic-fallout-if-congress-passes-9-11-bill.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>What does the bill actually, you know, do? The article has neither a link to its text nor an identifying number, and the name, &amp;quot;9&amp;#x2F;11 bill&amp;quot;, is not a good enough search term to be able to easily find it. It&amp;#x27;s kind of absurd to try to discuss the bill, or political machinations surrounding it, without getting that basic information down first.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HillRat</author><text>It amends the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to allow the bringing of suits against foreign states for terrorist-related claims where the entirety of the alleged activity did not take place on American soil. Basically, KSA had gotten some civil cases tossed based on FSIA immunity, so this is a bill to remove that bar.</text></comment>