HCONRES 8 · 119th Congress 2025–2027

Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should resume normal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, negotiate a bilateral free trade agreement with Taiwan, and support Taiwans membership in international organizations.

Fact sheet

Latest action · Feb 6, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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.

  1. IntroducedFeb 6, 2025
  2. Agreed to in HouseNot reached
  3. Agreed to in SenateNot reached

Summary

This concurrent resolution calls on the President to abandon the One China policy in favor of one that recognizes Taiwan as an independent country that is not a part of China. The resolution also urges the President to bolster diplomatic and economic relations between the United States and Taiwan through specified means.

Cosponsors 38

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 6, 2025 to Feb 11, 2026, with 23 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-TNAndrew OglesOriginalFeb 6, 2025
R-NYAndrew R. GarbarinoOriginalFeb 6, 2025
R-FLCarlos A. GimenezOriginalFeb 6, 2025
R-TNCharles J. "Chuck" FleischmannOriginalFeb 6, 2025
R-NJChristopher H. SmithOriginalFeb 6, 2025
R-PADaniel MeuserOriginalFeb 6, 2025
R-TNDiana HarshbargerOriginalFeb 6, 2025
R-WIGlenn GrothmanOriginalFeb 6, 2025
R-TXJake EllzeyOriginalFeb 6, 2025
R-INJames R. BairdOriginalFeb 6, 2025
R-FLKat CammackOriginalFeb 6, 2025
R-TXLance GoodenOriginalFeb 6, 2025
R-COLauren BoebertOriginalFeb 6, 2025
R-NYNicole MalliotakisOriginalFeb 6, 2025
R-MNPete StauberOriginalFeb 6, 2025

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Feb 6, 2025Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  2. Feb 6, 2025Submitted in House

Related bills 2

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Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.

Text 1

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  1. Feb 6, 2025Introduced in House

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