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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1102 

Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to implement an agenda 

to Transform, Heal, and Renew by Investing in a Vibrant Economy 

(‘‘THRIVE’’). 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 

Ms. HAALAND (for herself, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. KHANNA, Mr. BRENDAN F. 

BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Ms. OMAR, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. 

JACKSON LEE, Mr. MCEACHIN, Ms. LEE of California, Ms. TLAIB, Mr. 

SMITH of Washington, Ms. NORTON, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. HUFFMAN, 

Ms. BARRAGA ́N, Mr. GARCI ́A of Illinois, Mr. KENNEDY, Ms. ESCOBAR, 

Mr. LEVIN of Michigan, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. PAYNE, Ms. JUDY CHU

of California, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. 

THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. WELCH, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. 

VELA ́ZQUEZ, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. CLARKE of New York, 

Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. POCAN, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. GOMEZ, Ms. BONAMICI, Ms. PRESSLEY, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, 

Mr. HIGGINS of New York, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. NADLER, Mr. GREEN of 

Texas, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. CA ́RDENAS, Mr. MCGOVERN, 

Mr. RASKIN, Ms. BASS, Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts, Ms. SHERRILL, 

Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. LAWSON of Florida, Mrs. DEMINGS, 

Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER, Ms. SCANLON, Mr. SUOZZI, Mr. COHEN, Ms. 

KAPTUR, Mr. CRIST, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Mrs. 

CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Mrs. TRAHAN, Mr. SOTO, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. MORELLE, Ms. SPEIER, Mrs. KIRKPATRICK, Mr. 

SCHIFF, Mr. JEFFRIES, Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. HORSFORD, and Mr. 

TAKANO) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees 

on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Natural 

Resources, and Agriculture, 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 


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RESOLUTION 

Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to implement an agenda to Transform, Heal, and Renew by 

Investing in a Vibrant Economy (‘‘THRIVE’’). 

Whereas families and communities throughout the United 

States share similar hopes and dreams of a good life that 

is free from worry about meeting basic needs, with reliable and fulfilling work, a dignified and healthy standard 

of living, and the ability to enjoy time with loved ones; 

Whereas the United States faces the stress of multiple, overlapping crises—old and new—that prevent the achievement of these fundamental human rights and needs, in 

which the COVID–19 pandemic has killed over 180,000 

United States residents; tens of millions of United States 

workers remain unemployed; rising economic inequality 

has made working families vulnerable; tens of millions of 

individuals do not get the health care they need; and intensifying climate change increases the threats to our 

health, economy, and livelihoods; 

Whereas these health, economic, and climate crises have magnified centuries-old injustices, causing high rates of death 

and hardship among Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities due to long-standing systemic racism—a fact 

spotlighted by an emerging, multiracial movement to end 

violence against Black people; 

Whereas these crises are causing the inequitable workloads of 

women—particularly women of color—to grow, especially 

as women of color overwhelmingly make up the essential 

workforce, bearing the weight of the increased care needs 

of children, the elderly, and the sick; 


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Whereas, even before the COVID–19 crisis, many rural communities and independent family farmers suffered from 

poverty, declining economic opportunity, and alarming 

rates of farm bankruptcy, including loss of land from 

Black farmers and the exploitation of Black, Brown, and 

Indigenous farmers caused by predatory and racist public, private, and governmental institutions and policies; 

Whereas the root of our interlocking economic and environmental crises is society’s historical willingness to treat 

some communities and workers as disposable; 

Whereas it is necessary to counteract systemic injustice and 

value the dignity of all individuals in order to address unemployment, pandemics, or climate change and ensure 

the survival of the Nation and the planet; 

Whereas the choices made in response to these crises will 

shape the United States direction for the 21st century 

and beyond, offering an opportunity to reshape our society to provide a good life for each of us and for our children and grandchildren; and 

Whereas the United States has the means to support fulfilling livelihoods for millions of people—Black, Indigenous, Brown, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, White, immigrant, urban and rural, old and young, of many faiths, 

genders, abilities, and talents—while working to heal 

harms, protect communities, and invest in a future that 

fosters justice, not crisis: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep2 resentatives that— 

3 (1) it is the duty of the Federal Government to 

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1 ployment, a pandemic, and climate change with a 

2 bold and holistic national mobilization, an Agenda to 

3 Transform, Heal, and Renew by Investing in a Vi4 brant Economy (‘‘THRIVE’’) (referred to in this re5 solving clause as the ‘‘Agenda’’), to build a society 

6 that enables— 

7 (A) greater racial, economic, and gender 

8 justice; 

9 (B) dignified work; 

10 (C) healthy communities; and 

11 (D) a stable climate; and 

12 (2) such Agenda shall be assessed upon its abil13 ity to uphold its foundational pillars, including— 

14 (A) creating millions of good, safe jobs 

15 with access to unions by— 

16 (i) investing in projects including— 

17 (I) upgrading our broken infra18 structure to expand access to clean 

19 and affordable energy, transportation, 

20 high-speed broadband, and water, par21 ticularly for public systems; 

22 (II) modernizing and retrofitting 

23 millions of homes, schools, offices, and 

24 industrial buildings to cut pollution 

25 and costs; 


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1 (III) investing in public health 

2 and care work, including by increasing 

3 jobs, protections, wages, and benefits 

4 for the historically unpaid and under5 valued work of caring for children, the 

6 elderly, and the sick; 

7 (IV) protecting and restoring 

8 wetlands, forests, and public lands, 

9 and cleaning up pollution in our com10 munities; 

11 (V) creating opportunities for 

12 family farmers and rural communities, 

13 including by untangling the hyper14 consolidated food supply chain, bol15 stering regenerative agriculture, and 

16 investing in local and regional food 

17 systems that support farmers, agricul18 tural workers, healthy soil, and cli19 mate resilience; and 

20 (VI) developing and transforming 

21 the industrial base of the United 

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1 ducing industrial pollution, and 

2 prioritizing clean, domestic manufac3 turing for the aforementioned invest4 ments; 

5 (ii) prioritizing the mobilization of di6 rect public investments, while excluding 

7 false solutions that— 

8 (I) increase inequality; 

9 (II) privatize public lands, water, 

10 or nature; 

11 (III) violate human rights; 

12 (IV) expedite the destruction of 

13 ecosystems; or 

14 (V) decrease union density or 

15 membership; 

16 (iii) driving investment toward real 

17 full employment, where every individual 

18 who wishes to work has a viable pathway 

19 to a meaningful and dignified job with the 

20 right to form a union, including by estab21 lishing new public employment programs, 

22 as necessary; and 

23 (iv) subjecting each job created under 

24 this Agenda to high-road labor standards 

25 that— 


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1 (I) require family-sustaining 

2 wages and benefits, including child 

3 care support; 

4 (II) ensure safe workplaces; 

5 (III) protect the rights of work6 ers to organize; and 

7 (IV) prioritize the hiring of local 

8 workers to ensure wages stay within 

9 communities to stimulate economic ac10 tivity; 

11 (B) building the power of workers to fight 

12 inequality by— 

13 (i) reversing the corporate erosion of 

14 workers’ organizing rights and bargaining 

15 power so that millions of new clean energy 

16 jobs, as well as millions of existing low17 wage jobs across the economy, become the 

18 family-supporting union jobs that everyone 

19 deserves, including by— 

20 (I) passing the bipartisan Pro21 tecting the Right to Organize Act; 

22 (II) repealing the ban on sec23 ondary boycotts; 


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1 (III) requiring employer neu2 trality with regard to union orga3 nizing; 

4 (IV) ensuring that ‘‘franchising’’ 

5 and other corporate structures may 

6 not be used to hinder collective bar7 gaining on a company-wide, regional, 

8 or national basis; 

9 (V) advancing sectoral bar10 gaining in certain economic sectors; 

11 and 

12 (VI) ensuring that no workers 

13 are misclassified as ‘‘independent con14 tractors;’’ 

15 (ii) expanding union representation 

16 for all workers; and 

17 (iii) creating ladders of opportunity, 

18 particularly for women and people of color, 

19 to access registered apprenticeship and 

20 pre-apprenticeship programs in commu21 nities of all sizes across the country; 

22 (C) investing in Black, Brown, and Indige23 nous communities to build power and counter24 act racial and gender injustice by— 


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1 (i) directing at least 40 percent of in2 vestments to communities that have been 

3 excluded, oppressed, and harmed by racist 

4 and unjust practices, including— 

5 (I) communities of color; 

6 (II) low-income communities; 

7 (III) deindustrialized commu8 nities; and 

9 (IV) communities facing environ10 mental injustice; 

11 (ii) ensuring that investments in these 

12 communities enable— 

13 (I) the creation of good jobs with 

14 family-sustaining wages; 

15 (II) economic ownership opportu16 nities that close the racial wealth gap; 

17 (III) pollution reduction; 

18 (IV) climate resilience; 

19 (V) small business support; 

20 (VI) economic opportunities for 

21 independent family farmers and 

22 ranchers; and 

23 (VII) the expansion of public 

24 services; 


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1 (iii) ensuring that affected commu2 nities have the power to democratically 

3 plan, implement, and administer these 

4 projects; 

5 (iv) prioritizing local and equitable 

6 hiring and contracting that creates oppor7 tunities for— 

8 (I) people of color; 

9 (II) immigrants, regardless of 

10 immigration status; 

11 (III) formerly incarcerated indi12 viduals; 

13 (IV) women; 

14 (V) LGBTQIAP+ individuals; 

15 (VI) disabled and chronically ill 

16 individuals; and 

17 (VII) marginalized communities; 

18 and 

19 (v) providing access to quality work20 force training, including through registered 

21 apprenticeships and pre-apprenticeships to 

22 ensure real pathways to good careers, in23 cluding those that have historically been 

24 inaccessible; 


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1 (D) strengthening and healing the nation2 to-nation relationship with sovereign Native Na3 tions, including by— 

4 (i) making systemic changes in Fed5 eral policies to honor the environmental 

6 and social trust responsibilities to Native 

7 Nations and their Peoples, which are es8 sential to tackling society’s economic, envi9 ronmental, and health crises; 

10 (ii) strengthening Tribal sovereignty 

11 and enforcing Indian treaty rights by mov12 ing towards greater recognition and sup13 port of the inherent self-governance and 

14 sovereignty of these nations and their 

15 members; and 

16 (iii) promulgating specific initiatives 

17 that reflect the nuanced relationships be18 tween the Native Nations, including— 

19 (I) the confirmation by Congress 

20 that Tribal nations can exercise their 

21 full and inherent civil regulatory and 

22 adjudicatory authority over their own 

23 citizens, lands, and resources, and 

24 over activities within their Tribal 

25 lands; 


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1 (II) the codification of Free, 

2 Prior, and Informed Consent as it re3 lates to Tribal consultation; and 

4 (III) the implementation of the 

5 United Nations Declaration on the 

6 Rights of Indigenous Peoples, without 

7 qualification; 

8 (E) combating environmental injustice and 

9 ensuring healthy lives for all, including by— 

10 (i) curtailing air, water, and land pol11 lution from all sources; 

12 (ii) removing health hazards from 

13 communities; 

14 (iii) replacing lead pipes to ensure 

15 clean water is available to all; 

16 (iv) remediating the cumulative health 

17 and environmental impacts of toxic pollu18 tion and climate change; 

19 (v) ensuring that affected commu20 nities have equitable access to public 

21 health resources that have been system22 ically denied, which includes— 

23 (I) upgrading unhealthy and 

24 overcrowded homes, public schools, 

25 and public hospitals; 


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1 (II) ensuring access to healthy 

2 food, mental health support, and re3 storative justice; and 

4 (III) investing in universal 

5 childcare, care for individuals with 

6 disabilities, senior care, and a robust 

7 care workforce; and 

8 (vi) focusing these initiatives in Black, 

9 Brown, and Indigenous communities that 

10 have endured disproportionately high death 

11 rates from COVID–19 due to higher expo12 sure to air pollution and other cumulative 

13 health hazards as a result of decades of en14 vironmental racism; 

15 (F) averting climate and environmental ca16 tastrophe, including by— 

17 (i) contributing to a livable climate 

18 and environment for today and for future 

19 generations, including by— 

20 (I) staying below 1.5 degrees Cel21 sius of global warming; 

22 (II) building climate resilience to 

23 keep communities safe; and 

24 (III) ensuring sustainable re25 source use; 


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1 (ii) deploying investments and stand2 ards in the electricity, transportation, 

3 buildings, manufacturing, lands, and agri4 cultural sectors to spur the largest expan5 sion in history of clean, renewable energy, 

6 emissions reductions, climate resilience, 

7 and sustainable resource use; 

8 (iii) transforming the power sector in 

9 order to move the country, by not later 

10 than 2035, to carbon pollution-free elec11 tricity that passes an environmental justice 

12 screen to prevent concentrating pollution 

13 in Black, Brown, and Indigenous commu14 nities; 

15 (iv) prioritizing materials and parts 

16 that meet high labor, environmental, and 

17 human rights standards throughout the 

18 supply chain; 

19 (v) supporting sustainable, domestic 

20 production of healthy, nutritious food that 

21 pays independent farmers and ranchers a 

22 fair price for their land stewardship; and 

23 (vi) ensuring that funding under this 

24 Agenda goes to workers and communities 

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1 mental crises, not to corporate fossil fuel 

2 polluters; 

3 (G) ensuring fairness for workers and com4 munities affected by economic transitions by— 

5 (i) guaranteeing that workers and 

6 communities in industries and regions in 

7 economic transition due to COVID–19, cli8 mate change, and other economic shocks 

9 receive— 

10 (I) stable wages and benefits, in11 cluding full pension and health care; 

12 (II) early retirement offerings; 

13 (III) crisis and trauma support; 

14 and 

15 (IV) equitable job placement; and 

16 (ii) investing in transitioning areas to 

17 support— 

18 (I) economic diversification; 

19 (II) high quality job creation; 

20 (III) community reinvestment; 

21 (IV) retooling and conversion; 

22 (V) reclamation and remediation 

23 of closed and abandoned facilities and 

24 sites; 


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1 (VI) child and adult care infra2 structure; and 

3 (VII) funding to shore up budget 

4 shortfalls in local and State govern5 ments; and 

6 (H) reinvesting in public sector institutions 

7 that enable workers and communities to thrive 

8 by— 

9 (i) rebuilding vital public services and 

10 strengthening social infrastructure in cities 

11 and counties, health care systems, schools, 

12 the postal service, and other services; 

13 (ii) investing in equitable public edu14 cation opportunities, including career and 

15 technical education pathways that prepare 

16 youth—especially girls; Black, Brown, and 

17 Indigenous students; students with disabil18 ities; students from low-income families; 

19 and other students from marginalized 

20 groups—for high-quality jobs of the future, 

21 and state of the art technology and 

22 schools, so that from the beginning stu23 dents are prepared to transform society 

24 and preserve democracy; 


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1 (iii) investing in the workers who pro2 vide care to children, the elderly, and com3 munities burdened by neglect; 

4 (iv) creating new public institutions, 

5 inspired by and improving upon New Deal6 era institutions, to ensure universal access 

7 to critical resources and to strategically 

8 and coherently mobilize and channel in9 vestments, in line with the above priorities, 

10 at the scale and pace that these times re11 quire; and 

12 (v) coupling this institutional renewal 

13 with democratic governance and account14 ability to correct the systemic misallocation 

15 of resources and representation that pre16 vents families and communities from meet17 ing fundamental human needs and pur18 suing fulfilling lives. 

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