Providing that any agreement relating trade and investment that is negotiated by the executive branch with other countries must comply with certain minimum standards.
Latest action · Nov 10, 2005 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
- IntroducedNov 10, 2005
- Agreed to in HouseNot reached
- Agreed to in SenateNot reached
Summary
Urges the compliance of any trade and investment agreement that is negotiated by the executive branch with other foreign countries with certain minimum standards regarding: (1) investor and investment policy; (2) specified 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 6
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Nov 10, 2005.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Nov 10, 2005 |
| D-CA | George Miller | Original | Nov 10, 2005 |
| D-CA | Hilda L. Solis | Original | Nov 10, 2005 |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Original | Nov 10, 2005 |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Original | Nov 10, 2005 |
| R-NC | Walter B. Jones | Original | Nov 10, 2005 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 10, 2005Introduced in House
- Nov 10, 2005Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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
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