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Whereas press reports suggest that the TPP would com-
promise United States sovereignty by imposing a regime 
of global governance on the United States regarding do-
mestic land use; control of United States natural re-
sources and property rights; immigration and visa rights; 
service sector regulation; patents and copyrights; and 
food and product standards and labeling; 
Whereas leaked text of the draft agreement reveals that the 
TPP would submit the United States to the jurisdiction 
of foreign tribunals administered by the United Nations 
and the World Bank that would be empowered to order 
unlimited payment of United States taxpayer dollars to 
foreign firms who claim that Federal, State, or local gov-
ernments are not delivering on the new privileges and 
rights TPP would grant to them; 
Whereas leaked TPP text suggests foreign investors and 
firms operating within the United States would be given 
greater substantive and procedural rights than United 
States citizens and firms are provided under the United 
States Constitution as interpreted by the United States 
Supreme Court; 
Whereas press reports indicate the TPP would ban ‘‘buy 
American’’ and ‘‘buy local’’ preferences in Federal Gov-
ernment procurement; 
Whereas leaked TPP text reveals the TPP would include spe-
cial protections and incentives that promote the 
offshoring of United States jobs and investment; 
Whereas the TPP may require the United States to import 
meat and other foods that do not meet United States 
safety standards, putting United States producers at a 
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disadvantage and United States consumers’ health at 
risk; 
Whereas under the terms of the draft agreement, failure by 
the Federal, State, or local governments to conform 
United States domestic laws, regulations, and administra-
tive procedures to this regime would subject the United 
States Government to trade sanctions imposed until 
United States laws are altered to conform with the TPP 
requirements; 
Whereas the terms of this international regime of governance 
could only be altered by consensus of all signatory gov-
ernments and the TPP has no expiration date, meaning 
the TPP would lock in expansive international preemp-
tion of United States laws and policies; and 
Whereas every Pacific Rim nation, including China and Rus-
sia, could eventually be included in the TPP, which is 
being designed as a ‘‘docking’’ agreement to which addi-
tional countries may join: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) Members of Congress should be allowed to 
observe Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement 
negotiations on behalf of the American people they 
represent; 
(2) Members of Congress, the American public, 
and the press should be allowed access to the draft 
text of the agreement and to the text of United 
States negotiating proposals; 
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(3) any final TPP agreement should not under-
mine United States sovereignty by submitting the 
United States, its people, or its businesses to the ju-
risdiction of foreign tribunals; 
(4) any final TPP agreement should not in-
crease United States unemployment or the United 
States trade deficit; and 
(5) any final TPP agreement that is not a trea-
ty approved by two-thirds of the Senate under Arti-
cle II, section 2, clause 2 of the Constitution does 
not have the force of law. 
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