HCONRES 78 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Expressing the need to reengage Congress and the Administration regarding the social conditions and need for poverty reduction in Haiti, and for other purposes.

Introduced Mar 5, 2003 Originated House Sponsor Barbara Lee D-CA

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 2, 2004 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H748)

Progress

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  1. IntroducedMar 5, 2003
  2. Agreed to in HouseNot reached
  3. Agreed to in SenateNot reached

Summary

Reaffirms Congress' support for the mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) to Haiti and calls on the President to urge that the mission work closely with the Haitian Government and people to advance their goals and not the objectives of other governments or international organizations.

Calls on certain international financial institutions to convene a meeting of donors to Haiti with the objective of launching a new humanitarian initiative, including a lending program to bolster Haiti's economic and infrastructure bases. Calls specifically on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to reevaluate current stall monitoring program conditions outlined for Haiti and work in the long-term toward a poverty reduction agreement for Haiti.

Urges the President to: (1) direct the Secretary of State to conduct a review of U.S. policy toward Haiti, including appropriate consultations with relevant congressional committees; and (2) instruct the Secretary of the Treasury to direct the U.S. Executive Director at the Inter-American Development Bank to release the four social sector and development loans for health, education, water and sanitation, and transportation that have been approved by the Board of Executive Directors of the Bank and ratified by the Haitian Parliament.

Cosponsors 62

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 5, 2003 to Jan 27, 2004, with 24 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-FLAlcee L. HastingsOriginalMar 5, 2003
D-MABarney FrankOriginalMar 5, 2003
D-ILBobby L. RushOriginalMar 5, 2003
D-MICarolyn C. KilpatrickOriginalMar 5, 2003
D-OHDennis J. KucinichOriginalMar 5, 2003
D-CADiane E. WatsonOriginalMar 5, 2003
D-NJDonald M. PayneOriginalMar 5, 2003
D-VIDonna M. ChristensenOriginalMar 5, 2003
D-MDElijah E. CummingsOriginalMar 5, 2003
D-SCJames E. ClyburnOriginalMar 5, 2003
D-MNJames L. OberstarOriginalMar 5, 2003
D-ILJanice D. SchakowskyOriginalMar 5, 2003
D-MIJohn Conyers, Jr.OriginalMar 5, 2003
D-INJulia CarsonOriginalMar 5, 2003
D-FLKendrick B. MeekOriginalMar 5, 2003
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Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Mar 2, 2004Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H748)
  2. Mar 10, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
  3. Mar 5, 2003Introduced in House
  4. Mar 5, 2003Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.

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