IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 104 
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 
FEBRUARY 5, 2021 
Mrs. DINGELL (for herself, Mr. KHANNA, Mr. BOWMAN, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Ms. 
CLARKE of New York, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. 
BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. MCEACHIN, 
Ms. JAYAPAL, and Ms. DELAURO) 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 consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to imple-
ment 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 reli-
able and fulfilling work, a dignified and healthy standard 
of living, and the ability to enjoy time with loved ones; 
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Whereas the United States faces the stress of multiple, over-
lapping crises—old and new—that prevent the achieve-
ment of these fundamental human rights and needs, in 
which the COVID–19 pandemic has killed over 400,000 
United States residents; more than 10,000,000 United 
States workers remain unemployed; rising economic in-
equality 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 mag-
nified centuries-old injustices, causing high rates of death 
and hardship among Black, Brown, and Indigenous com-
munities 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; 
Whereas, even before the COVID–19 crisis, many rural com-
munities 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 pub-
lic, private, and governmental institutions and policies; 
Whereas the root of our interlocking economic and environ-
mental crises is society’s historical willingness to treat 
some communities and workers as disposable; 
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Whereas it is necessary to counteract systemic injustice and 
value the dignity of all individuals in order to address un-
employment, 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 soci-
ety to provide a good life for each of us and for our chil-
dren and grandchildren; and 
Whereas the United States has the means to support ful-
filling livelihoods for millions of people—Black, Indige-
nous, Brown, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, White, im-
migrant, 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 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) it is the duty of the Federal Government to 
respond to the crises of racial injustice, mass unem-
ployment, a pandemic, and climate change with a 
bold and holistic national mobilization, an Agenda to 
Transform, Heal, and Renew by Investing in a Vi-
brant Economy (‘‘THRIVE’’) (referred to in this re-
solving clause as the ‘‘Agenda’’), to build a society 
that enables— 
(A) greater racial, economic, and gender 
justice; 
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(B) dignified work; 
(C) healthy communities; and 
(D) a stable climate; and 
(2) such Agenda shall be assessed upon its abil-
ity to uphold its foundational pillars, including— 
(A) creating millions of good, safe jobs 
with access to unions by— 
(i) investing in projects including— 
(I) upgrading our broken infra-
structure to expand access to clean 
and affordable energy, transportation, 
high-speed broadband, and water, par-
ticularly for public systems; 
(II) modernizing and retrofitting 
millions of homes, schools, offices, and 
industrial buildings to cut pollution 
and costs; 
(III) investing in public health 
and care work, including by increasing 
jobs, protections, wages, and benefits 
for the historically unpaid and under-
valued work of caring for children, the 
elderly, and the sick; 
(IV) protecting and restoring 
wetlands, forests, and public lands, 
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and cleaning up pollution in our com-
munities; 
(V) creating opportunities for 
family farmers and rural communities, 
including by untangling the hyper- 
consolidated food supply chain, bol-
stering regenerative agriculture, and 
investing in local and regional food 
systems that support farmers, agricul-
tural workers, healthy soil, and cli-
mate resilience; and 
(VI) developing and transforming 
the industrial base of the United 
States, while creating high-skill, high- 
wage manufacturing jobs across the 
country, including by expanding man-
ufacturing of clean technologies, re-
ducing 
industrial 
pollution, 
and 
prioritizing clean, domestic manufac-
turing for the aforementioned invest-
ments; 
(ii) prioritizing the mobilization of di-
rect public investments, while excluding 
false solutions that— 
(I) increase inequality; 
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(II) privatize public lands, water, 
or nature; 
(III) violate human rights; 
(IV) expedite the destruction of 
ecosystems; or 
(V) decrease union density or 
membership; 
(iii) driving investment toward real 
full employment, where every individual 
who wishes to work has a viable pathway 
to a meaningful and dignified job with the 
right to form a union, including by estab-
lishing new public employment programs, 
as necessary; and 
(iv) subjecting each job created under 
this Agenda to high-road labor standards 
that— 
(I) 
require 
family-sustaining 
wages and benefits, including child 
care support; 
(II) ensure safe workplaces; 
(III) protect the rights of work-
ers to organize; and 
(IV) prioritize the hiring of local 
workers to ensure wages stay within 
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communities to stimulate economic ac-
tivity; 
(B) building the power of workers to fight 
inequality by— 
(i) reversing the corporate erosion of 
workers’ organizing rights and bargaining 
power so that millions of new clean energy 
jobs, as well as millions of existing low- 
wage jobs across the economy, become the 
family-supporting union jobs that everyone 
deserves, including by— 
(I) passing the bipartisan Pro-
tecting the Right to Organize Act; 
(II) repealing the ban on sec-
ondary boycotts; 
(III) requiring employer neu-
trality with regard to union orga-
nizing; 
(IV) ensuring that ‘‘franchising’’ 
and other corporate structures may 
not be used to hinder collective bar-
gaining on a company-wide, regional, 
or national basis; 
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(V) 
advancing 
sectoral 
bar-
gaining in certain economic sectors; 
and 
(VI) ensuring that no workers 
are misclassified as ‘‘independent con-
tractors;’’ 
(ii) expanding union representation 
for all workers; and 
(iii) creating ladders of opportunity, 
particularly for women and people of color, 
to access registered apprenticeship and 
pre-apprenticeship programs in commu-
nities of all sizes across the country; 
(C) investing in Black, Brown, and Indige-
nous communities to build power and counter-
act racial and gender injustice by— 
(i) directing at least 40 percent of in-
vestments to communities that have been 
excluded, oppressed, and harmed by racist 
and unjust practices, including— 
(I) communities of color; 
(II) low-income communities; 
(III) 
deindustrialized 
commu-
nities; and 
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(IV) communities facing environ-
mental injustice; 
(ii) ensuring that investments in these 
communities enable— 
(I) the creation of good jobs with 
family-sustaining wages; 
(II) economic ownership opportu-
nities that close the racial wealth gap; 
(III) pollution reduction; 
(IV) climate resilience; 
(V) small business support; 
(VI) economic opportunities for 
independent 
family 
farmers 
and 
ranchers; and 
(VII) the expansion of public 
services; 
(iii) ensuring that affected commu-
nities have the power to democratically 
plan, implement, and administer these 
projects; 
(iv) prioritizing local and equitable 
hiring and contracting that creates oppor-
tunities for— 
(I) people of color; 
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(II) immigrants, regardless of 
immigration status; 
(III) formerly incarcerated indi-
viduals; 
(IV) women; 
(V) LGBTQIAP+ individuals; 
(VI) disabled and chronically ill 
individuals; and 
(VII) marginalized communities; 
and 
(v) providing access to quality work-
force training, including through registered 
apprenticeships and pre-apprenticeships to 
ensure real pathways to good careers, in-
cluding those that have historically been 
inaccessible; 
(D) strengthening and healing the nation- 
to-nation relationship with sovereign Native Na-
tions, including by— 
(i) making systemic changes in Fed-
eral policies to honor the environmental 
and social trust responsibilities to Native 
Nations and their Peoples, which are es-
sential to tackling society’s economic, envi-
ronmental, and health crises; 
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(ii) strengthening Tribal sovereignty 
and enforcing Indian treaty rights by mov-
ing towards greater recognition and sup-
port of the inherent self-governance and 
sovereignty of these nations and their 
members; and 
(iii) promulgating specific initiatives 
that reflect the nuanced relationships be-
tween the Native Nations, including— 
(I) the confirmation by Congress 
that Tribal nations can exercise their 
full and inherent civil regulatory and 
adjudicatory authority over their own 
citizens, lands, and resources, and 
over activities within their Tribal 
lands; 
(II) the codification of Free, 
Prior, and Informed Consent as it re-
lates to Tribal consultation; and 
(III) the implementation of the 
United Nations Declaration on the 
Rights of Indigenous Peoples, without 
qualification; 
(E) combating environmental injustice and 
ensuring healthy lives for all, including by— 
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(i) curtailing air, water, and land pol-
lution from all sources; 
(ii) removing health hazards from 
communities; 
(iii) replacing lead pipes to ensure 
clean water is available to all; 
(iv) remediating the cumulative health 
and environmental impacts of toxic pollu-
tion and climate change; 
(v) ensuring that affected commu-
nities have equitable access to public 
health resources that have been system-
ically denied, which includes— 
(I) 
upgrading 
unhealthy 
and 
overcrowded homes, public schools, 
and public hospitals; 
(II) ensuring access to healthy 
food, mental health support, and re-
storative justice; and 
(III) 
investing 
in 
universal 
childcare, care for individuals with 
disabilities, senior care, and a robust 
care workforce; and 
(vi) focusing these initiatives in Black, 
Brown, and Indigenous communities that 
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have endured disproportionately high death 
rates from COVID–19 due to higher expo-
sure to air pollution and other cumulative 
health hazards as a result of decades of en-
vironmental racism; 
(F) averting climate and environmental ca-
tastrophe, including by— 
(i) contributing to a livable climate 
and environment for today and for future 
generations, including by— 
(I) staying below 1.5 degrees Cel-
sius of global warming; 
(II) building climate resilience to 
keep communities safe; and 
(III) ensuring sustainable re-
source use; 
(ii) deploying investments and stand-
ards in the electricity, transportation, 
buildings, manufacturing, lands, and agri-
cultural sectors to spur the largest expan-
sion in history of clean, renewable energy, 
emissions reductions, climate resilience, 
and sustainable resource use; 
(iii) transforming the power sector in 
order to move the country, by not later 
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than 2035, to carbon pollution-free elec-
tricity that passes an environmental justice 
screen to prevent concentrating pollution 
in Black, Brown, and Indigenous commu-
nities; 
(iv) prioritizing materials and parts 
that meet high labor, environmental, and 
human rights standards throughout the 
supply chain; 
(v) supporting sustainable, domestic 
production of healthy, nutritious food that 
pays independent farmers and ranchers a 
fair price for their land stewardship; and 
(vi) ensuring that funding under this 
Agenda goes to workers and communities 
affected by the economic and environ-
mental crises, not to corporate fossil fuel 
polluters; 
(G) ensuring fairness for workers and com-
munities affected by economic transitions by— 
(i) guaranteeing that workers and 
communities in industries and regions in 
economic transition due to COVID–19, cli-
mate change, and other economic shocks 
receive— 
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(I) stable wages and benefits, in-
cluding full pension and health care; 
(II) early retirement offerings; 
(III) crisis and trauma support; 
and 
(IV) equitable job placement; and 
(ii) investing in transitioning areas to 
support— 
(I) economic diversification; 
(II) high quality job creation; 
(III) community reinvestment; 
(IV) retooling and conversion; 
(V) reclamation and remediation 
of closed and abandoned facilities and 
sites; 
(VI) child and adult care infra-
structure; and 
(VII) funding to shore up budget 
shortfalls in local and State govern-
ments; and 
(H) reinvesting in public sector institutions 
that enable workers and communities to thrive 
by— 
(i) rebuilding vital public services and 
strengthening social infrastructure in cities 
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and counties, health care systems, schools, 
the postal service, and other services; 
(ii) investing in equitable public edu-
cation opportunities, including career and 
technical education pathways that prepare 
youth—especially girls; Black, Brown, and 
Indigenous students; students with disabil-
ities; students from low-income families; 
and other students from marginalized 
groups—for high-quality jobs of the future, 
and state of the art technology and 
schools, so that from the beginning stu-
dents are prepared to transform society 
and preserve democracy; 
(iii) investing in the workers who pro-
vide care to children, the elderly, and com-
munities burdened by neglect; 
(iv) creating new public institutions, 
inspired by and improving upon New Deal- 
era institutions, to ensure universal access 
to critical resources and to strategically 
and coherently mobilize and channel in-
vestments, in line with the above priorities, 
at the scale and pace that these times re-
quire; and 
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(v) coupling this institutional renewal 
with democratic governance and account-
ability to correct the systemic misallocation 
of resources and representation that pre-
vents families and communities from meet-
ing fundamental human needs and pur-
suing fulfilling lives. 
Æ 
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