H.Con.Res. 39: Expressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar producing and consuming countries should be eliminated.
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H.Con.Res. 39: Expressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar producing and consuming countries should be eliminated.
113th Congress · introduced 2013-06-14 · Foreign Trade and International Finance · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2013-06-14 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Yoho, Ted S. [R-FL-3] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
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Official title
Expressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar producing and consuming countries should be eliminated.
Plain summary
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should seek through negotiated agreements under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO) the elimination of all direct and indirect subsidies benefitting the production or export of sugar by any foreign country that: (1) exported more than 200,000 metric tons of sugar during 2013, or (2) has in effect a free trade agreement with the United States. Urges the President to: (1) report to Congress detailed information about how any of such countries has eliminated such subsidies, and (2) then propose legislation to implement a "zero for zero" sugar subsidy policy.
Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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Official text
Expressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar producing and consuming countries should be eliminated.
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Sponsor: Rep. Yoho, Ted S. [R-FL-3] · 14 cosponsors
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Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL), Richard Hudson (R-NC), Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
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- Resolution
- A formal statement or decision by a legislative body. Simple resolutions often only express an opinion or set rules for one chamber; they do not become law.
- Roll-call vote
- A vote where each member's position is recorded by name, so the public can see how every member voted. "Yea" means yes, "Nay" means no, "Present" means the member was there but did not take a side.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-113hconres39.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/113/hconres>
Record fed-us-cong113-hconres39 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113