IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1078 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that a Global Marshall 
Plan holds the potential to demonstrate the commitment of the United 
States to peace and prosperity. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 3, 2008 
Mr. ELLISON (for himself, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, and Mr. CLEAVER) sub-
mitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
a Global Marshall Plan holds the potential to dem-
onstrate the commitment of the United States to peace 
and prosperity. 
Whereas, after World War II, the United States established 
a program to provide for the reconstruction of Europe, 
named after General George C. Marshall and commonly 
referred to as the ‘‘Marshall Plan’’, which has been 
hailed by leaders of World War II allied and enemy coun-
tries as the most magnanimous act by the United States 
in history; 
Whereas by providing assistance to Europe through the Mar-
shall Plan, the United States recognized the direct link 
between economic growth and political stability, thereby 
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investing resources into economic development and assist-
ance; 
Whereas the Marshall Plan made possible new measures of 
international cooperation through the North Atlantic 
Treaty Organization and other institutions that have en-
hanced the security, freedom, and prosperity of the 
United States and the world; 
Whereas the United States has established foreign assistance 
programs, as described in the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961, with a goal of the ‘‘encouragement and sustained 
support of the people of developing countries in their ef-
forts to acquire the knowledge and resources essential to 
development and to build the economic, political, and so-
cial institutions which will improve the quality of their 
lives’’; 
Whereas annual United States appropriations for foreign de-
velopment assistance in its many forms, whether consid-
ered as a proportion of the Federal budget or as a pro-
portion of gross domestic product, never again have 
reached the levels seen during the first years of the Mar-
shall Plan; 
Whereas more than 1,000,000,000 people worldwide live on 
less than $1 per day, and another 1,600,000,000 people 
struggle to survive on less than $2 per day, according to 
the World Bank; 
Whereas at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, 
the United States joined more than 180 other countries 
in committing to work toward the United Nations Millen-
nium Development Goals to improve life for the world’s 
poorest people by 2015; 
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Whereas the United Nations Millennium Development Goals 
include the goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of 
people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on 
less than $1 per day, cutting in half the proportion of 
people suffering from hunger and unable to access safe 
drinking water and sanitation, reducing by two-thirds 
child mortality, ensuring basic education for all children, 
and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS and malaria, 
while sustaining the environment upon which human life 
depends; 
Whereas United States citizens and nongovernmental organi-
zations have proposed a new Global Marshall Plan, in-
cluding— 
(1) providing enough funding to eliminate global 
poverty, homelessness, hunger, inadequate education, and 
health care, plus restoring the global environment; 
(2) creating international nongovernmental mecha-
nisms for receiving funds contributed through foreign aid 
and alternative sources of financing, and for distributing 
such funds in a way that is environmentally sensitive, re-
spectful of native cultures, safeguarded against corrup-
tion, protected from manipulation to serve elite interests, 
and empowering of the people in each region; 
(3) revising existing trade and other agreements in 
which the United States is currently involved so that 
such agreements favor improving the lives of the poor of 
the world; and approaching future agreements with like 
intent; 
(4) creating a greatly expanded Peace and Justice 
Corps of the United States that would provide ways for 
people with useful skills to volunteer two years at any age 
toward the goals of the Global Marshall Plan; 
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(5) providing training to foreign militaries to become 
experts in ecologically sensitive construction of those as-
pects of their own societies that need relief and recon-
struction, including agriculture, health care, housing, in-
frastructure, education, computers, and other appropriate 
technology; and 
(6) providing training to children and adults world-
wide in techniques of nonviolent communication, diver-
sity, environmental sustainability, family and parental 
support, stress reduction, emergency health techniques, 
diet and exercise, and caring for others who are in need 
of help; and 
Whereas the attacks against the United States that occurred 
on September 11, 2001, and the subsequent global war 
on terrorism, have enhanced United States strategic con-
cern for the economic and political future of countries 
worldwide: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the United States 
House of Representatives that— 
(1) the elimination of poverty and hunger, as-
surance of basic health and education for all, and 
resolution of environmental crises remain key foreign 
policy goals for the United States; 
(2) a Global Marshall Plan holds potentially 
transformative power of a reinvigorated, comprehen-
sive approach to foreign development assistance that 
would demonstrate the commitment of the United 
States to peace and prosperity to people who may 
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have doubted the dedication of the United States to 
those ideals; and 
(3) a Global Marshall Plan must operate within 
the ethical framework of generosity and magna-
nimity, not merely of instrumentality, and to be suc-
cessful and must be perceived as more than a new 
attempt to extend influence into the world. 
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