HRES 767 · 112th Congress · Foreign Trade and International Finance
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.
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EnactedLatest: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.(2012-08-02)
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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.…
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