Honoring the life of Dr. Paul Farmer by recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to adopt a 21st-century global health solidarity strategy and take actions to address past and ongoing harms that undermine the health and well-being of people around the world.
Summary
This resolution expresses the sense that the federal government should adopt a global health solidarity strategy to end medically avertable deaths and respond to the full burden of disease in poor countries; the federal government should use laws and diplomatic influence to stop ongoing economic harms to the global South; and it is the duty of the federal government to issue reparations, including for slavery and colonialism.
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Mar 2023
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Introduced Mar 7, 2023
Last action Mar 7, 2023
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Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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Mar 7, 2023
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1 primary · 31 co-sponsors
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Janice D. Schakowsky
DDemocratic
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Adriano Espaillat
DDemocratic
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Al Green
DDemocratic
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André Carson
DDemocratic
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Andy Kim
DDemocratic
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Ayanna Pressley
DDemocratic
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Barbara Lee
DDemocratic
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Betty McCollum
DDemocratic
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Bonnie Watson Coleman
DDemocratic
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Darren Soto
DDemocratic
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David J. Trone
DDemocratic
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