3.0.0 1947 2023-01-11T13:27:38Z 2023-01-11T13:27:38Z House HR 2015-04-22 114 [Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 59 (Wednesday, April 22, 2015)]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mr. BLUMENAUER:H.R. 1947.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Section 8 of Article I of the U.S. Constitution[Page H2418]]]> hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing hswm04 Trade Subcommittee Referred to 2015-05-04T21:48:38Z Referred to 2015-04-22T14:04:50Z Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 114 644 HR 2016-02-24 Became Public Law No: 114-125. Related bill CRS Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 114 1269 S 2015-05-13 By Senator Hatch from Committee on Finance filed written report. Report No. 114-45. Related bill CRS 2015-05-04 hswm04 Trade Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade. Committee 2015-04-22 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hswm00 Ways and Means Committee 2015-04-22 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E552) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2015-04-22 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2015-04-22 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress B000574 Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] EARL BLUMENAUER D OR 3 N K000188 Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3] RON KIND D WI 3 2015-04-22 True N000015 Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-1] RICHARD NEAL D MA E. 1 2015-04-22 True T000460 Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-5] MIKE THOMPSON D CA 5 2015-04-22 True L000557 Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1] JOHN LARSON D CT B. 1 2015-04-22 True S001156 Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-38] Linda Sánchez D CA T. 38 2015-04-22 True M000404 Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7] JIM MCDERMOTT D WA 7 2015-04-22 True L000560 Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2] RICK LARSEN D WA 2 2015-06-08 False H001047 Rep. Himes, James A. [D-CT-4] James Himes D CT A. 4 2015-07-21 False Foreign Trade and International Finance Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits Employment discrimination and employee rights Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Executive agency funding and structure Free trade and trade barriers Government studies and investigations Government trust funds Human rights Labor standards Performance measurement Tariffs Trade agreements and negotiations Foreign Trade and International Finance 00 2015-04-22 Introduced in House 2015-09-28T20:45:20Z Supplemental Trade Review, Oversight, Noncompliance and General Enforcement Resources Act of 2015 or the STRONGER Act of 2015

Establishes in the U.S. Treasury the Trade Agreements Enforcement Trust Fund. Directs the Department of the Treasury to transfer to the Trust Fund an amount equal to $15 million of the countervailing duties and antidumping duties received in the Treasury for each fiscal year beginning after enactment of this Act. Limits the total amount of funds in the Trust Fund to $30 million.

Authorizes the President to make sums in the Trust Fund available to: (1) the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to take specified actions relating to enforcement of free trade agreements; and (2) the USTR, the Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Department of Labor, and other departments and agencies with relevant expertise to take specified actions relating to implementation assistance and local capacity building under such agreements. Prohibits amounts made available in the Trust Fund from being used to negotiate any new free trade agreement.

Directs the President to establish a permanent interagency committee to ensure that actions taken under under this Act relating to implementation assistance and local capacity building are effectively prioritized, targeted, coordinated, and implemented. Requires the United States to promote aid effectiveness and accountability through transparency, monitoring, evaluation, learning, and fostering local ownership and implementation of U.S. assistance through such activities by requiring the interagency committee to: (1) publish timely, comprehensive, and detailed information regarding such activities on a quarterly basis, consistent with the U.S. commitment to full compliance with the International Aid Transparency Initiative; (2) conduct evaluations that are independent, methodologically rigorous, made public in their entirety, and transmitted to the International Aid Transparency Initiative Registry; and (3) develop and implement procedures for ensuring that data and evaluation results inform decisionmaking and lead to the revision and promotion of best practices among relevant executive branch agencies.

]]> STRONGER Act of 2015 Display Title STRONGER Act of 2015 Official Title as Introduced To establish the Trade Agreements Enforcement Trust Fund to take actions to enforce free trade agreements to which the United States is a party, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced STRONGER Act of 2015 Short Titles as Introduced Supplemental Trade Review, Oversight, Noncompliance and General Enforcement Resources Act of 2015 Introduced in House 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114hr1947ih/xml/BILLS-114hr1947ih.xml 2015-05-04 Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.