In his remarks on Tuesday, President Obama paid tribute to Neda Agha Soltan, the young woman who is whose shooting death, recorded on the a camera phone just after it occurred, was seen worldwide, calling it heartbreaking and fundamentally unjust.

The killing continued to revoborate reverberate also in Congressas . As the House Appropriation's Appropriations Committee voted Tuesday to send the a State Department a and foreign aid funding bill to the 4 full House of Representatives. Democratic , Democrat Nita Lowey voiced Congressional congressional solidarity with demonstrators in Iran.

" Our While this bill is not related to the ongoing post-election events in Iran. We will , we would be remiss to not express our solidarity with the protestors pursuing electronic protesters persuing electoral freedom in Tehranconsistantly , consistent with our democratic values. "

Saying she fully supports President Obama's diplomatic efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability, Lowey supported an amendment to close a loophole in U. S. law regarding sanctions targeting Iran's energy sector.

The amendment would prevent the U. S. export, import, bank Export-Import Bank from entering into any deals with foreign companies that significantly contribute to Iran's refined petroleum resources, part of efforts to pressure Iran to stop its uranium richman enrichment program.