legislation: 117-hconres-60
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| 117-hconres-60 | 117 | hconres | 60 | Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States Government must take steps to end the pandemic now. | International Affairs | 2021-11-09 | 2022-11-01 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet. | House | Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] | IL | D | S001145 | 42 | 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. | 2022-12-30T07:48:43Z |