Title: Expressing the sense of Congress that all trade agreements the United States enters into, should provide reasonable access and collaboration of each nation involved in such an agreement, for the purpose of search and recovery activities relating to members of the United States Armed Forces missing in action from prior wars or military conflicts.
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:
This concurrent resolution expresses the sense of Congress that all trade agreements the United States enters into with a foreign country should provide reasonable collaboration with that country for the purpose of search and recovery activities for Armed Forces members missing in action from prior wars or military conflicts.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 42 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 42

 Expressing the sense of Congress that all trade agreements the United 
States enters into, should provide reasonable access and collaboration 
of each nation involved in such an agreement, for the purpose of search 
and recovery activities relating to members of the United States Armed 
    Forces missing in action from prior wars or military conflicts.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 22, 2019

 Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania (for himself and Mr. Connolly) submitted 
    the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of Congress that all trade agreements the United 
States enters into, should provide reasonable access and collaboration 
of each nation involved in such an agreement, for the purpose of search 
and recovery activities relating to members of the United States Armed 
    Forces missing in action from prior wars or military conflicts.

Whereas the Department of Defense Prisoners of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) 
        Accounting Agency must currently approach MIA recovery operations on a 
        country-by-country basis via diplomatic, civil, and military 
        negotiations;
Whereas countries utilizing mutually beneficial trade agreements with the United 
        States should provide a transparent and efficient process to aid in the 
        recovery of United States POW/MIA operations;
Whereas the Department of Defense estimates approximately 1,627 United States 
        citizens who served during the Vietnam War are still unaccounted for in 
        Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia despite quarterly Joint Field Activity 
        excavation and recovery efforts;
Whereas some 73,000 members of the United States Armed Forces remain unaccounted 
        for throughout Europe, China, and Japan after sacrificing their lives 
        during World War II; and
Whereas nearly 8,000 members of the United States Armed Forces are still missing 
        on the Korean Peninsula after bravely serving during the Korean War: 
        Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that all trade agreements the United 
States enters into, should provide reasonable access and collaboration 
of each nation involved in such an agreement, for the purpose of search 
and recovery activities relating to members of the United States Armed 
Forces missing in action from prior wars or military conflicts.
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