[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 191 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 191

  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the 
  interference of the European Commission in the merger of the Boeing 
                     Company and McDonnell Douglas.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 21, 1997

    Mr. Metcalf (for himself, Ms. Dunn, Mr. Dicks, Mr. Hastings of 
 Washington, Mr. Nethercutt, Mrs. Linda Smith of Washington, Mr. Adam 
Smith of Washington, Mr. White, Mr. McDermott, Ms. Millender-McDonald, 
Mr. Dreier, Ms. Harman, Mr. Young of Alaska, Mr. Matsui, Mr. Horn, and 
Mr. Lewis of California) submitted the following resolution; which was 
          referred to the Committee on International Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the 
  interference of the European Commission in the merger of the Boeing 
                     Company and McDonnell Douglas.

Whereas the Boeing Company and McDonnell Douglas have announced their merger;
Whereas the Department of Defense has approved the merger as consistent with the 
        national security of the United States;
Whereas the Federal Trade Commission has found that the merger does not violate 
        the antitrust laws of the United States;
Whereas the European Commission has been highly critical of the merger in its 
        consideration of the facts;
Whereas the European Commission is apparently determined to disapprove the 
        merger to gain an unfair competitive advantage for Airbus Industries, a 
        government-owned aircraft manufacturer; and
Whereas this dispute could threaten to disrupt the overall relationship between 
        the European Union and the United States which had a two-way trade in 
        goods and services of approximately $366,000,000,000 in 1996: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that--
            (1) any disapproval by the European Commission of the 
        merger of the Boeing Company and McDonnell Douglas would 
        constitute an unwarranted and unprecedented interference in a 
        United States business transaction that would directly threaten 
        thousands of American aerospace jobs and potentially put many 
        more jobs at risk on both sides of the Atlantic; and
            (2) the President should take such actions as he considers 
        to be appropriate to protect United States interests in 
        connection with this matter.
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