[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 76 (Monday, May 18, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2995-S2996]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1331. Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. Durbin) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1221 proposed by Mr. 
Hatch to the bill H.R. 1314, to amend the Internal

[[Page S2996]]

Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a right to an administrative appeal 
relating to adverse determinations of tax-exempt status of certain 
organizations; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 36, between lines 17 and 18, insert the following:
       (21) Public health.--The principal negotiating objectives 
     of the United States with respect to public health are--
       (A) to strengthen the commitments made in the bipartisan 
     congressional agreement on trade policy relating to trade 
     agreements with Peru, Colombia, and Panama, dated May 10, 
     2007 (commonly referred to as the ``May 10 agreement'');
       (B) to ensure that a party to a trade agreement with the 
     United States adopts and maintains current rights and 
     obligations under--
       (i) the Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public 
     Health, adopted by the World Trade Organization at the Fourth 
     Ministerial Conference at Doha, Qatar, on November 14, 2001;
       (ii) the World Intellectual Property Organization 
     Development Agenda, adopted in 2007; and
       (iii) World Health Organization Resolution 61.21 (2008);
       (C) to ensure that no provision of a trade agreement 
     imposes upon the United States or any other party to the 
     agreement any rule that may be interpreted as undermining or 
     limiting access to medical tools and technologies, including 
     pharmaceutical products, diagnostics, vaccines, or other 
     medical devices, or the practice of medicine; and
       (D) to recognize the right of all governments to regulate 
     and enact laws in the interest of public health and the right 
     of all governments to exercise any legal rights or safeguards 
     to protect public health without the threat of trade-related 
     penalties.
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