INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS

Bills and resolutions

Business and industry: permit sharing of confidential supervisory information with foreign auditor oversight bodies (see H.R. 3346), H8872 [27JY]

Dept. of the Treasury: direct U.S. representatives to the IMF and World Bank to condition loans to Antigua and Barbuda on cooperation with efforts to provide redress to Stanford Financial Group fraud victims (see S. Res. 362), S12008 [30NO]

———identify misaligned currency and require action to correct the misalignment (see S. 1254), S6542 [11JN]

Developing countries: prevent speculation and profiteering in the defaulted debt of certain poor countries (see H.R. 2932), H7021 [18JN]

———provide for greater responsibility in lending and expanded cancellation of debts owed to the U.S. and international financial institutions by low-income countries (see H.R. 4405), H15501 [16DE]

Fifth Summit of the Americas: support (see S. Res. 90), S3986 [30MR]

Food: acknowledge existence of global food crisis (see H. Con. Res. 11), H90 [8JA]

Foreign countries: take action against certain judgment evading foreign states and state-owned corporations of such states (see H.R. 2493), H5791 [19MY]

Foreign trade: clarify that fundamental exchange-rate misalignment by any foreign nation is actionable under U.S. countervailing and antidumping duty laws (see S. 1027), S5435 [13MY] (see H.R. 2378), H5580 [13MY]

Japan: commend policy against currency manipulation and encourage continuance of such policy (see H. Res. 933), H13354 [19NO]

OPIC: reauthorize programs (see S. 705), S3785 [25MR]

Remarks in House

Economy: impact of depreciation of the U.S. dollar, H11983 [28OC]

Foreign trade: impact of trade agreements on employment and the economy, H1639 [23FE], H2811 [25FE], H4233 [31MR], H5044 [30AP], H5691 [18MY], H5770 [19MY], H8163-H8170 [15JY], H12126-H12132 [29OC], H13391 [2DE], H14848 [14DE]

IMF: prohibit funding for the Dept. of the Treasury to negotiate an agreement in contravention of certain laws, H7907, H7908 [9JY]

Liechtenstein: tax and financial crime enforcement, E2970 [11DE]

World Bank Group: International Development Association funding, H7907 [9JY]

Remarks in Senate

Fifth Summit of the Americas: support (S. Res. 90), S4397 [2AP]

Foreign trade: impact of trade agreements on employment and the economy, S3061 [12MR], S3754 [25MR], S4627 [23AP], S4743-S4745 [27AP], S7679 [20JY]

OPIC: reauthorize programs (S. 705), S3794 [25MR]

U.N.: withhold U.S. contributions if U.N. implements or imposes taxation on any U.S. persons, S2679 [3MR], S2806, S2813 [5MR]

Reports filed

Nomination of Sec. of the Treasury Geithner to International Monetary Organizations: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate), S4061 [31MR]

OPIC Programs Reauthorization: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (S. 705) (S. Rept. 111-107), S13251 [15DE]

Support Fifth Summit of the Americas: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (S. Res. 90), S4061 [31MR]

Texts of

S. Res. 90, support Fifth Summit of the Americas, S4005 [30MR], S4397 [2AP]

S. Res. 362, Dept. of the Treasury direction of U.S. representatives to the IMF and World Bank to condition loans to Antigua and Barbuda on cooperation with efforts to provide redress to Stanford Financial Group fraud victims, S12012 [30NO]