IV 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 185 
Declaring that it should be the policy of the United States to encourage 
visits between the United States and Taiwan at all levels. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 26, 2013 
Mr. BENTIVOLIO submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Declaring that it should be the policy of the United States 
to encourage visits between the United States and Tai-
wan at all levels. 
Whereas the Taiwan Relations Act (Public Law 96–8; 22 
U.S.C. 3301 et seq.), enacted in 1979, has continued for 
34 years to be the cornerstone of United States-Taiwan 
relations and has served as an anchor for peace and secu-
rity in the Western Pacific region; 
Whereas the Taiwan Relations Act declares that peace and 
stability in the Western Pacific area are in the political, 
security, and economic interests of the United States, 
and are matters of international concern; the United 
States considers any effort to determine the future of 
Taiwan by other than peaceful means, including by boy-
cotts or embargoes, a threat to the peace and security of 
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the Western Pacific and are of grave concern to the 
United States; 
Whereas Taiwan has succeeded in a momentous transition to 
democracy beginning in the late 1980s and has been a 
beacon of democratic practices in Asia, and Taiwan’s 
democratic achievements inspire many countries and peo-
ple in the region; 
Whereas through the Taiwan Relations Act, the United 
States treats Taiwan as a de facto sovereign, independent 
nation; 
Whereas visits by United States cabinet officials and other 
high-ranking officials are an indicator of the breadth and 
depth of ties between the United States and its friends 
and Allies; 
Whereas over the past decades, United States-Taiwan rela-
tions have suffered from a lack of communication due to 
the self-imposed restrictions that the United States main-
tains on high-level visits with Taiwan; and 
Whereas it should be the policy of the United States to en-
courage visits between the United States and Taiwan at 
all levels: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Taiwan Travel 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. POLICY. 
Notwithstanding the 1994 Taiwan policy review and 
current guidance from the Department of State pertaining 
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to contacts with Taiwan, it should be United States policy 
to— 
(1) allow all high-level officials of Taiwan to 
enter into the United States or its embassies and 
consulates under conditions which demonstrate ap-
propriate respect for the dignity of such leaders; 
(2) allow meetings between all high-level Tai-
wanese and United States officials in United States 
executive departments, including the Department of 
State and Department of Defense; and 
(3) allow the Taipei Economic and Cultural 
Representative Office and all other instrumentalities 
established by Taiwan to conduct official business 
activities, including activities which involve participa-
tion by Members of the United States Congress and 
other representatives of the Federal, State, and local 
governments, and all high-level Taiwanese officials, 
without obstruction from the United States Govern-
ment or any foreign power. 
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