H.Con.Res. 60: Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States Government must take steps to end the pandemic now.

117th Congress · introduced 2021-11-09 · International Affairs · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.

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Where it came from: introduced 2021-11-09 · official record
Who proposed it: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States Government must take steps to end the pandemic now.

Plain summary

This concurrent resolution expresses the sense of Congress for ensuring the speediest end of the COVID-19 pandemic the United States and European governments should unite to enact a World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights waiver, require technology transfer, and otherwise facilitate access in low- and middle-income countries to high-quality COVID-19 mRNA vaccines; and vital U.S. partners, with shared values who also prioritize global cooperation and saving lives and livelihoods worldwide, should unite to remove all obstacles to global access to COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics, treatments, oxygen, and other medical products to advance the common goal of quickly ending the COVID-19 pandemic. The resolution states that the U.S. government has an obligation to the American people, whose taxpayer funds helped to develop lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines, to ensure that doses are ultimately delivered to those most in need around the world so as to ensure the global COVID-19 vaccination necessary to end the pandemic.

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 the United States Government must take steps to end the pandemic now.

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] · 42 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Grace Meng (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] reported raising $415,385 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Words on this page, explained (3)

Obligation: A binding promise by a government agency to pay money, for example by signing a contract or awarding a grant. Spending data such as USAspending.gov counts money when it is obligated, which can be before it is actually paid out.
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-117hconres60.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/117/hconres>

Record fed-us-cong117-hconres60 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117