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Whereas direct investments by the United States and Euro-
pean Union on both sides of the Atlantic total more than 
$3.7 trillion; 
Whereas the HLWG recommended a comprehensive agree-
ment that ‘‘addresses a broad range of bilateral trade 
and investment issues, including regulatory issues, and 
contributes to the development of global rules’’; 
Whereas the HLWG found that a comprehensive Trans-
atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership that ‘‘ad-
dresses a broad range of bilateral trade and investment 
issues, including regulatory issues, and contributes to the 
development of global rules, would provide the most sig-
nificant mutual benefit of the various options [it] consid-
ered.’’; 
Whereas the HLWG recommended that a ‘‘comprehensive 
agreement would include ambitious reciprocal market 
opening in goods, services, and investment, and would ad-
dress the challenges and opportunities of modernizing 
trade rules and enhancing the compatibility of regulatory 
regimes’’; 
Whereas the HLWG outlines a structure and content that in-
cludes market access, regulatory issues and nontariff bar-
riers, and rules addressing shared global trade challenges 
and opportunities; 
Whereas the HLWG recommended that ‘‘in addition to pur-
suing the elements of a comprehensive agreement, the 
two sides seek to make early and continuing progress on 
SPS measures affecting bilateral trade.’’; and 
Whereas the HLWG recommended ‘‘to Leaders that each 
side initiate as soon as possible the formal domestic pro-
cedures necessary to launch negotiations on a comprehen-
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sive trade and investment agreement.’’: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) a comprehensive and ambitious Trans-
atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership would 
support the creation of significant good-paying jobs 
for American workers, ranchers, and farmers; 
(2) a comprehensive and ambitious Trans-
atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership would 
open new opportunity for United States companies 
to sell their goods and services in the European 
Union; 
(3) a comprehensive and ambitious Trans-
atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership would 
further bond the economies of Europe and the 
United States and give rise to a dominant economic 
alliance that would strongly influence other nations 
toward market-based economies; 
(4) the President should promptly submit writ-
ten notice to Congress of the President’s intention to 
enter into negotiations with the European Union for 
a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Invest-
ment Partnership; and 
(5) as soon as possible after providing notice 
and completing appropriate consultations with Con-
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gress, the President should initiate negotiations for 
a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Invest-
ment Partnership. 
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