Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives relating to increased transparency in the negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, and for other purposes.
Latest action · Aug 2, 2012 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Progress
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- IntroducedAug 2, 2012
- Agreed to in HouseNot reached
Summary
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) Members of Congress should be allowed to observe Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement negotiations on behalf of the American people; (2) Members of Congress, the public, and the press should be allowed access to the draft text of the agreement and to the text of U.S. negotiating proposals; (3) any final TPP agreement should not undermine U.S. sovereignty by submitting the United States, its people, or its businesses to the jurisdiction of foreign tribunals; (4) any final TPP agreement should not increase U.S. unemployment or the U.S. trade deficit; and (5) any final TPP agreement that is not a treaty approved by two-thirds of the Senate under Article II, section 2, clause 2 of the Constitution does not have the force of law.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Aug 2, 2012Introduced in House
- Aug 2, 2012Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance.
- Asia
- Australia
- Brunei
- Canada
- Chile
- Congressional oversight
- Economic performance and conditions
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government information and archives
- International law and treaties
- Latin America
- Malaysia
- Members of Congress
- Mexico
- New Zealand
- Oceania
- Peru
- Singapore
- Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
- Trade agreements and negotiations
- Unemployment
- Vietnam
Text 1
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- Aug 2, 2012Introduced in House
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