[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 91 (Wednesday, May 25, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S2710]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5046. Mr. SCHUMER (for Mr. Lee) proposed an amendment to the 
resolution S. Res. 134, expressing the sense of the Senate that the 
President should work with the Government of the United Kingdom to 
conclude negotiations for a comprehensive trade agreement between the 
United States and the United Kingdom that the President should work 
with the President of the European Commission to conclude negotiations 
for a comprehensive trade agreement between the United States and the 
European Union; as follows:

       Strike the preamble and insert the following:
       Whereas, on March 5, 1946, Sir Winston Churchill delivered 
     the Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri, solidifying the 
     ``Special Relationship'' between the United States and the 
     United Kingdom;
       Whereas, since the end of World War II, the United States 
     and the United Kingdom have been beacons of freedom to the 
     world, standing together in the fight against tyranny;
       Whereas the Special Relationship between the United States 
     and the United Kingdom has driven economic prosperity and 
     security cooperation in both nations for more than 70 years;
       Whereas, according to ``Sterling Assets,'' a report from 
     the Confederation of British Industry, the United States and 
     the United Kingdom share the world's largest bilateral trade 
     and investment relationship;
       Whereas, while the United States and the United Kingdom 
     already share a robust economic partnership and strong labor 
     ties, there remain clear opportunities for both countries to 
     further strengthen those ties;
       Whereas the United States Trade Representative and United 
     Kingdom Department for International Trade have engaged in 
     substantive negotiations towards the conclusion of a 
     comprehensive trade agreement since May 2020;
       Whereas the United States seeks to support higher-paying 
     jobs in the United States and to grow the United States 
     economy by improving United States opportunities for trade 
     and investment with the European Union;
       Whereas the economic relationship of the United States and 
     the European Union is the largest and most complex in the 
     world, with over $1,100,000,000,000 in annual two-way trade;
       Whereas the United States Trade Representative and the 
     European Union have engaged in substantive negotiations 
     toward the conclusion of a trade agreement;
       Whereas the United States has historically acted as a 
     guarantor of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, an agreement 
     between the British and Irish governments, designed to 
     protect peace in Northern Ireland by avoiding a hard border 
     on the island of Ireland;
       Whereas Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, 
     President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, 
     and President of the European Council Charles Michel signed 
     the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement on January 24, 2020;
       Whereas as part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, in 
     order to protect the Good Friday Agreement in the aftermath 
     of the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union, 
     the two parties agreed to the Northern Ireland Protocol; and
       Whereas the constitutional power of making trade agreements 
     with foreign nations rests with Congress: Now, therefore, be 
     it
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