NAFTA Accountability Act
Latest action · Dec 10, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedDec 6, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
NAFTA Accountability Act - Provides that unless the specified conditions set forth in this Act are met: (1) Congress withdraws its approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) effective October 1, 2009; and (2) the President, not later than April 1, 2009, shall provide written notice of withdrawal to the governments of Canada and Mexico.
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should not engage in negotiations to expand NAFTA to include other countries and that trade promotion authority should not be renewed with respect to the approval of any such NAFTA expansion.
Cosponsors 11
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 6, 2007 to Sep 29, 2008, with 8 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-OH | Betty Sutton | Original | Dec 6, 2007 |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Original | Dec 6, 2007 |
| R-CA | Duncan Hunter | Original | Dec 6, 2007 |
| D-ME | Michael H. Michaud | Original | Dec 6, 2007 |
| D-KS | Nancy E. Boyda | Original | Dec 6, 2007 |
| D-IL | Phil Hare | Original | Dec 6, 2007 |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Original | Dec 6, 2007 |
| D-OH | Tim Ryan | Original | Dec 6, 2007 |
| D-NY | Maurice D. Hinchey | Sep 8, 2008 | |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Sep 8, 2008 | |
| D-MI | Dale E. Kildee | Sep 29, 2008 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 10, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
- Dec 6, 2007Introduced in House
- Dec 6, 2007Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance.
- Agriculture and Food
- Agriculture in foreign trade
- Balance of payments
- Barley
- Boundaries
- Canada
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Congress
- Congressional oversight
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Congressional-executive relations
- Customs unions
- Democracy
- Drug abuse
- Drug traffic
- Employee rights
- Environmental Protection
- Exports
- Food safety
- Foreign exchange
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Foreign trade promotion
- Free trade
- Freedom of speech
- Freedom of the press
- Government Operations and Politics
- Human rights
- Import restrictions
- Imports
- Industrial pollution
- International Affairs
- Job creation
- Labor and Employment
- Latin America
- Law
- Mexico
- Right of assembly
- Rule of law
- Tariff
- Trade agreements
- Trade negotiations
- Wheat
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 6, 2007Introduced in House
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