A concurrent resolution providing that any agreement relating to trade and investment that is negotiated by the executive branch with other countries must comply with certain minimum standards.
Latest action · Sep 16, 2003 Referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11577-11578)
Progress
Where this resolution reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried. A concurrent resolution must be agreed to by both chambers, but it is not presented to the President and does not become law.
- IntroducedSep 16, 2003
- Agreed to in SenateNot reached
- Agreed to in HouseNot reached
Summary
Urges any trade and investment agreement that is negotiated by the executive branch with other foreign countries to comply with certain minimum standards regarding: (1) investor and investment policy; (2) certain services; (3) policies to support American workers and small, minority, and women-owned businesses; (4) environmental, labor, and other public interests; (5) U.S. trade laws; (6) food safety; (7) agriculture and food security; (8) transparency; (9) governmental authority; (10) access to medicines and seeds; and (11) special treatment for developing countries.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Finance Committee | Referred Sep 16, 2003 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 16, 2003Introduced in Senate
- Sep 16, 2003Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11578-11579)
- Sep 16, 2003Referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11577-11578)
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this resolution, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S11578Text printed S11577 | Russell D. Feingold D-WI | Sep 16, 2003 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCONRES 276 | Providing that any agreement relating to trade and investment that is negotiated by the executive branch with other countries must comply with certain minimum standards. | Identical bill | Sep 23, 2003 |
Titles 1
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A concurrent resolution providing that any agreement relating to trade and investment that is negotiated by the executive branch with other countries must comply with certain minimum standards.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance.
- Access to health care
- Admission of nonimmigrants
- Agricultural prices
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Agriculture in foreign trade
- Alien labor
- Antitrust law
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Church and social problems
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Commerce
- Compensation (Law)
- Congress
- Congressional-executive relations
- Consumer protection
- Corrections
- Countervailing duties
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Day care
- Developing countries
- Dispute settlement
- Drugs
- Dumping
- Economic development
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee rights
- Energy
- Environmental Protection
- Families
- Family farms
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal-Indian relations
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Food safety
- Food supply
- Foreign investments
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government procurement
- Government publicity
- Health
- Human rights
- Immigration
- Import restrictions
- International Affairs
- International environmental cooperation
- Investors
- Labor and Employment
- Labor unions
- Law
- Local laws
- Minorities
- Minority business enterprises
- Nontariff trade barriers
- Parties to actions
- Postal service
- Public health
- Public interest
- Public utilities
- Refuse and refuse disposal
- Religion
- Restrictive trade practices
- Seeds
- Service industries
- Small business
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- State laws
- Subsidies
- Taxation
- Temporary employment
- Trade agreements
- Trade negotiations
- Transportation and Public Works
- Trucking
- Water Resources Development
- Women
- Women in business
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 16, 2003Introduced in Senate
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