[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 342 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 342

Expressing the sense of Congress that there should be an international 
                education policy for the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 25, 2000

 Mr. Kolbe (for himself, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Oberstar, and Mrs. Morella) 
 submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to 
              the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of Congress that there should be an international 
                education policy for the United States.

    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    The Congress makes the following findings:
    (a) International education entails the imparting of effective 
global literacy to students and other citizens as an integral part of 
their education;
    (b) International education is important to meet future challenges 
facing the United States including national security and the management 
of global conflict and competitiveness in a global economy;
    (c) Nearly 500,000 international students and their dependents 
contributed an estimated $11.7 billion to the U.S. economy in the 
academic year 1998-99;
    (d) Other countries, especially the United Kingdom, are mounting 
vigorous recruitment campaigns to compete for international students;
    (e) U.S. competitiveness in the international student market is 
declining, the U.S. share of internationally mobile students having 
declined from 40 percent to 30 percent since 1982;
    (f) Educating international students is an important way to spread 
U.S. values and influence and to create goodwill for America throughout 
the world;
    (g) Less than 10 percent of U.S. students graduating from college 
have studied abroad;
    (h) Research indicates that the United States is failing to 
graduate enough students with foreign language expertise to fill the 
demands of business, government, and universities; and
    (i) Exchange programs, which in the past have done much to extend 
U.S. influence in the world by educating the world's leaders, are 
suffering from declining priority:

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that an international education policy 
should incorporate the following goals:----
    (a) To ensure that all college graduates will have knowledge of a 
second language and will have knowledge of a foreign area.
    (b) To enhance the educational infrastructure through which the 
Nation produces international expertise.
    (c) To recapture 40 percent of the international student market for 
the United States.
    (d) To streamline visa, taxation, and employment regulations 
applicable to international students.
    (e) To significantly increase participation in study abroad by U.S. 
students.
    (f) To promote greater diversity of locations, languages, and 
subjects involved in study abroad in order to ensure that the Nation 
maintains an adequate international knowledge base.
    (g) To invigorate citizen and professional exchange programs and to 
promote the international exchange of scholars.
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