This resolution rejects past trade models that prioritized corporate interests, leading to factory closures, job losses, and harm to communities and the environment. Instead, it advocates for a trade policy that unflaggingly centers workers, family farmers, consumers, a healthy environment, and national well-being , resilience, and security. It asserts that future trade agreements must include strong, binding labor and environmental standards, fair wage guarantees, and effective enforcement mechanisms to eliminate incentives for companies to offshore jobs. The resolution emphasizes strengthening "Buy America" requirements to ensure goods are truly made in the United States, not merely assembled, and calls for robust domestic content standards across various sectors. It seeks to reform United States trade and tax policy to penalize companies for moving production overseas and to prioritize those that invest domestically. Furthermore, it demands that trade policy rebuild domestic manufacturing capacity, complemented by industrial policies that support union jobs, and provides for a fully funded Trade Adjustment Assistance Program when offshoring occurs. Key provisions also include robust environmental standards to limit pollution, treating industrial espionage and intellectual property theft as trade violations, and excluding the investor-state dispute settlement system from agreements. The resolution advocates for trade policies that ensure access to affordable medicine, support independent farmers through mandatory country-of-origin labeling and anti-monopoly disciplines, and protect workers' rights in the digital economy. Finally, it stresses the importance of using tariffs as a critical tool to counter unfair trade and corporate greed, while fully enforcing trade laws against dumping and subsidized products to protect American industries and jobs.
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Submitted in House
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Submitted in House
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Calling for a trade policy that supports workers, consumers, independent farmers, small businesses, and the environment.
USA119th CongressHRES-1286| House
| Updated: 5/14/2026
This resolution rejects past trade models that prioritized corporate interests, leading to factory closures, job losses, and harm to communities and the environment. Instead, it advocates for a trade policy that unflaggingly centers workers, family farmers, consumers, a healthy environment, and national well-being , resilience, and security. It asserts that future trade agreements must include strong, binding labor and environmental standards, fair wage guarantees, and effective enforcement mechanisms to eliminate incentives for companies to offshore jobs. The resolution emphasizes strengthening "Buy America" requirements to ensure goods are truly made in the United States, not merely assembled, and calls for robust domestic content standards across various sectors. It seeks to reform United States trade and tax policy to penalize companies for moving production overseas and to prioritize those that invest domestically. Furthermore, it demands that trade policy rebuild domestic manufacturing capacity, complemented by industrial policies that support union jobs, and provides for a fully funded Trade Adjustment Assistance Program when offshoring occurs. Key provisions also include robust environmental standards to limit pollution, treating industrial espionage and intellectual property theft as trade violations, and excluding the investor-state dispute settlement system from agreements. The resolution advocates for trade policies that ensure access to affordable medicine, support independent farmers through mandatory country-of-origin labeling and anti-monopoly disciplines, and protect workers' rights in the digital economy. Finally, it stresses the importance of using tariffs as a critical tool to counter unfair trade and corporate greed, while fully enforcing trade laws against dumping and subsidized products to protect American industries and jobs.