Full Text of HJR0122 095th General Assembly
HJ0122 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, It is in our society's best interest to protect | 3 |
| the health, safety and standard of living of its citizens; and
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| WHEREAS, Too many of us have directly experienced or know | 5 |
| about the consequences of our flawed trade system: massive job | 6 |
| losses, devastated communities and staggering national | 7 |
| deficits; and
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| WHEREAS, The price of cheap imports is too expensive when | 9 |
| those imports unfairly take away millions of jobs, outsource | 10 |
| production and lower our quality of life by lowering wages, | 11 |
| harming the environment and now even threatening our very | 12 |
| health and safety; and
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| WHEREAS, Not only have cheap imports from bad trade deals | 14 |
| lowered our living standards here but cheap and toxic imports | 15 |
| also harm workers and the environment in developing countries | 16 |
| like China, where workers often toil in dangerous, sweatshop | 17 |
| conditions; and
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| WHEREAS, Our markets have been overflowing with an influx | 19 |
| of harmful products like toxic toys, defective passenger tires, | 20 |
| poisoned pet-foods and other tainted goods, in particular from | 21 |
| countries like China, where there are few, if any, effective |
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| labor, environmental or health and safety standards; and
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| WHEREAS, The current Administration has failed to | 3 |
| adequately enforce health, safety, labor or environmental | 4 |
| standards on imported products that may cause harm to the | 5 |
| American public and has not adequately addressed the risk of | 6 |
| such harm by requiring importers to show that they have | 7 |
| sufficient financial resources to cover the costs of product | 8 |
| recalls and the damages caused to the public resulting from | 9 |
| defective products that they bring into the United States; and
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| WHEREAS, The current Administration has failed to | 11 |
| adequately enforce our trade laws to protect our jobs and | 12 |
| communities from the devastating consequences of imports from | 13 |
| developing countries like China who do not play by fair | 14 |
| competition rules; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 16 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | 17 |
| SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that we implore the United States | 18 |
| Congress to meaningfully address the unsafe toxic imports that | 19 |
| threaten our families and communities; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That corporations producing and importing | 21 |
| products should be held accountable if they place greater value | 22 |
| on profits over the health and safety of our families and |
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| communities, and at the expense of our jobs, labor and | 2 |
| environmental standards and our living standards; and be it | 3 |
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| RESOLVED, That tougher trade laws are needed to prevent the | 5 |
| further loss of American jobs and the further erosion of our | 6 |
| standard of living; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be delivered to | 8 |
| the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, the Minority | 9 |
| Leader of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United | 10 |
| States House of Representatives, the Minority Leader of the | 11 |
| United States House of Representatives, and to each member of | 12 |
| our State's congressional delegation.
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