HCONRES 60 United States House · 117th Congress

Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States Government must take steps to end the pandemic now.

Summary
This concurrent resolution expresses the sense of Congress for ensuring the speediest end of the COVID-19 pandemic the United States and European governments should unite to enact a World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights waiver, require technology transfer, and otherwise facilitate access in low- and middle-income countries to high-quality COVID-19 mRNA vaccines; and vital U.S. partners, with shared values who also prioritize global cooperation and saving lives and livelihoods worldwide, should unite to remove all obstacles to global access to COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics, treatments, oxygen, and other medical products to advance the common goal of quickly ending the COVID-19 pandemic. The resolution states that the U.S. government has an obligation to the American people, whose taxpayer funds helped to develop lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines, to ensure that doses are ultimately delivered to those most in need around the world so as to ensure the global COVID-19 vaccination necessary to end the pandemic.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
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Nov 2021
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Introduced Nov 9, 2021 Last action Nov 1, 2022
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Nov 1, 2022
House · Referred to committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
Nov 9, 2021
House · Referred to committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Nov 9, 2021
House · Referred to committee
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Nov 9, 2021
House · Introduced
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1 primary · 42 co-sponsors

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