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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 9 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 9

  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that China is 
  responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic and must be held financially 
                    liable for $16,000,000,000,000.

_______________________________________________________________________

                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 9, 2023

Mr. Nehls submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION

 
  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that China is 
  responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic and must be held financially 
                    liable for $16,000,000,000,000.

Whereas the SARS-CoV-2, hereinafter referred to as ``COVID-19'', was first 
        detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019;
Whereas the Chinese Communist Party covered up the existence and downplayed the 
        seriousness of COVID-19, including ordering the destruction of 
        laboratory samples and research regarding COVID-19 in January 2020, and 
        silencing journalists, researchers, and others who attempted to share 
        information about China's involvement in the origins of COVID-19;
Whereas the Chinese Communist Party's calculated coverup, including reporting 
        inaccurate numbers of infections and deaths, enabled COVID-19 to go 
        global;
Whereas the coverup of COVID-19 by the Chinese Communist Party has caused 
        significant economic harm around the world and has cost the United 
        States economy $16,000,000,000,000;
Whereas the global median gross domestic product dropped by 3.9 percent from 
        2019 to 2020, making it the worst downturn since the Great Depression;
Whereas, on June 8, 2020, the National Bureau of Economic Research officially 
        declared a recession, noting that the United States economy had fallen 
        into contraction starting in February 2020;
Whereas at least half of households in the 4 largest cities in the United 
        States, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston, reported 
        serious financial problems as a result of COVID-19, including depleted 
        savings, trouble paying bills, or affording medical care;
Whereas a quarter of adults in the United States said they or someone in their 
        household have been laid off or lost a job because of COVID-19;
Whereas the COVID-19 pandemic increased extreme poverty between 88,000,000 and 
        93,000,000 in 2020; and
Whereas over 1,000,000 Americans have died as a result of COVID-19: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that--
            (1) China is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic and 
        should be held financially responsible for the pandemic's cost; 
        and
            (2) the United States should be reimbursed 
        $16,000,000,000,000 by China for the economic harm caused by 
        the COVID-19 pandemic.
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