JUBILEE Act of 2005
Latest action · May 19, 2005 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3685)
Progress
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- IntroducedMar 3, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Justice and Understanding By International Loan Elimination and Equity Act of 2005 or JUBILEE Act of 2005 - Amends the International Financial Institutions Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to commence immediate efforts, within the Paris Club of Official Creditors, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), and other international financial institutions (multilateral development institutions (MDI's)) to accomplish: (1) the cancellation of all debts owed to each institution by specified eligible poor countries, and the financing of such debt cancellation from the institution's ongoing operations, procedures, and accounts; (2) the limitation of any waiting period before receipt of debt cancellation to one month from the date of an eligible poor country's application for it; and (3) encouragement of the government of each eligible poor country to allocate at least 20 percent of its national budget, including the savings from such debt cancellation, for the provision of basic health care services, education services, and clean water services to individuals in the country.
Sets forth requirements for: (1) establishment of a framework to ensure transparency regarding each international financial institution's activities; and (2) availability on the Treasury Department's website of U.S. Executive Directors' remarks at meetings of international financial institutions' Boards of Directors.
Requires the Secretary to commence immediate efforts, within the Paris Club, the IMF, and other appropriate MDI's, to ensure that the provision of debt cancellation to such countries is not conditioned on any agreement by such a country to implement or comply with specified policies that deepen poverty or degrade the environment.
Cosponsors 82
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 3, 2005 to Jul 18, 2006, with 5 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Mar 3, 2005 |
| D-MA | Barney Frank | Original | Mar 3, 2005 |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Original | Mar 3, 2005 |
| R-IA | James A. Leach | Original | Mar 3, 2005 |
| R-AL | Spencer Bachus | Original | Mar 3, 2005 |
| D-AL | Artur Davis | Mar 16, 2005 | |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Mar 16, 2005 | |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Mar 16, 2005 | |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Mar 16, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Mar 16, 2005 | |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Mar 16, 2005 | |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Mar 16, 2005 | |
| D-VI | Donna M. Christensen | Mar 16, 2005 | |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Mar 16, 2005 | |
| D-CA | George Miller | Mar 16, 2005 | |
| D-IL | Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. | Mar 16, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Jose E. Serrano | Mar 16, 2005 | |
| D-IN | Julia Carson | Mar 16, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Mar 16, 2005 | |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Mar 16, 2005 | |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Mar 16, 2005 | |
| D-OH | Stephanie Tubbs Jones | Mar 16, 2005 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Mar 17, 2005 | |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | Mar 17, 2005 | |
| D-HI | Neil Abercrombie | Mar 17, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Sam Farr | Mar 17, 2005 | |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Mar 17, 2005 | |
| D-TX | Al Green | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-GA | David Scott | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-TX | Eddie Bernice Johnson | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Edolphus Towns | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-GA | John Lewis | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Juanita Millender-McDonald | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-IL | Lane Evans | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-IL | Luis V. Gutierrez | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Lynn C. Woolsey | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Maurice D. Hinchey | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-MO | Wm. Lacy Clay | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Apr 8, 2005 | |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Apr 8, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Michael R. McNulty | Apr 8, 2005 | |
| D-FL | Robert Wexler | Apr 8, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Zoe Lofgren | Apr 8, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Bob Filner | Apr 12, 2005 | |
| D-MI | Carolyn C. Kilpatrick | Apr 12, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Fortney Pete Stark | Apr 12, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | Apr 12, 2005 | |
| D-NC | G. K. Butterfield | Apr 14, 2005 | |
| D-PA | Chaka Fattah | Apr 26, 2005 | |
| D-CT | Rosa L. DeLauro | Apr 26, 2005 | |
| D-FL | Corrine Brown | Apr 28, 2005 | |
| D-GA | Cynthia A. McKinney | Apr 28, 2005 | |
| D-VA | James P. Moran | Apr 28, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Joseph Crowley | Apr 28, 2005 | |
| D-MD | Albert Russell Wynn | May 4, 2005 | |
| D-PA | Robert A. Brady | May 4, 2005 | |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | May 4, 2005 | |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | May 16, 2005 | |
| D-AZ | Ed Pastor | May 16, 2005 | |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | May 23, 2005 | |
| D-LA | William J. Jefferson | May 23, 2005 | |
| D-MA | John W. Olver | Jun 8, 2005 | |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | Jun 8, 2005 | |
| D-MA | Stephen F. Lynch | Jun 8, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Diane E. Watson | Jun 13, 2005 | |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | Jun 13, 2005 | |
| D-MN | James L. Oberstar | Jun 22, 2005 | |
| D-NJ | Robert E. Andrews | Jun 30, 2005 | |
| D-NC | Melvin L. Watt | Jul 28, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Lois Capps | Oct 20, 2005 | |
| D-PA | Michael F. Doyle | Oct 20, 2005 | |
| D-MA | Martin T. Meehan | Feb 7, 2006 | |
| D-OR | David Wu | May 19, 2006 | |
| D-NY | Nydia M. Velázquez | May 19, 2006 | |
| D-TX | Chet Edwards | Jul 18, 2006 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 19, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3685)
- Mar 28, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
- Mar 3, 2005Introduced in House
- Mar 3, 2005Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance.
- Africa (Sub-Saharan)
- AIDS (Disease)
- Angola
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Caribbean area
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Child health
- Child labor
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Collective bargaining
- Congo
- Congress
- Congress and foreign policy
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional oversight
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Debt relief
- Defense budgets
- Democracy
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Developing countries
- Development credit institutions
- Drug abuse
- Drug law enforcement
- East Asia
- Economic development
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electronic government information
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- Employee rights
- Environmental Protection
- Ethiopia
- Families
- Forced labor
- Foreign loans
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Freedom of association
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Government regulation
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Health
- Honduras
- Hours of labor
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- Human rights
- Infrastructure
- International Affairs
- International cooperation
- Internet
- Ivory Coast
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Labor and Employment
- Laos
- Latin America
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malaria
- Malawi
- Mali
- Maternal health services
- Mauritania
- Middle East and North Africa
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Occupational health and safety
- Peru
- Philippines
- Potable water
- Poverty
- Preventive medicine
- Privatization
- Public health
- Refuse and refuse disposal
- Rwanda
- Sanctions (International law)
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Social Welfare
- South Africa
- South Asia
- State-sponsored terrorism
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tuberculosis
- Uganda
- User charges
- Vietnam
- Wages
- Water pollution control
- Water quality
- Water Resources Development
- Water supply
- Water treatment plants
- Web sites
- Women
- World health
- Yemen
- Zambia
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 3, 2005Introduced in House
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