75th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2009 Regular Session
 
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 LC 2754
 
                     House Joint Memorial 14
 
Sponsored by Representative CLEM (at the request of Jamie
  Jackson)
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Urges Congress to end United States participation in Security
and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
 
                         JOINT MEMORIAL
To the President of the United States and the Senate and the
  House of Representatives of the United States of America, in
  Congress assembled:
  We, your memorialists, the Seventy-fifth Legislative Assembly
of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled,
respectfully represent as follows:
  Whereas the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North
America, launched in March 2005, as a partnership with Mexico and
Canada, aims to integrate United States laws with Mexican and
Canadian laws on a broad range of issues, from agriculture to
open borders; and
  Whereas this trilateral partnership has never been presented to
Congress as an agreement or a treaty or for public debate; and
  Whereas the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North
America has had virtually no Congressional oversight and violates
section 1, Article I, and section 2, Article II of the United
States Constitution, by usurping power delegated to Congress and
bypassing Congress; and
  Whereas requests made under the Freedom of Information Act have
produced thousands of pages of information from the Security and
Prosperity Partnership of North America office in the United
States Department of Commerce that prove that our government has
cooperated with Mexico and Canada on a broad range of policy
issues, is rewriting United States laws and is appointing
ministers without public disclosure or Congressional approval;
and
  Whereas documents and information posted on government websites
indicate that a wide range of Security and Prosperity Partnership
of North America ministers from the United States Departments of
State, Commerce, Homeland Security, Energy, the Treasury,
Agriculture, Transportation and Health and Human Services are
actively harmonizing and integrating United States administrative
regulations with the administrative regulations of Mexico and
Canada; and
  Whereas state and local governments throughout this country
might be negatively impacted by provisions of the Security and
Prosperity Partnership of North America, such as the increasing
openness of the borders of the United States, which could result
in increased law enforcement problems; and
  Whereas United States policy, not foreign consortiums, should
be used to control our national borders and to ensure that this
country's national security is not compromised; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  (1) The Congress of the United States of America is
respectfully requested to strongly consider ending United States
participation in the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North
America and to reject participation in any other bilateral or
multilateral partnerships that bypass Congress or compromise the
sovereignty of the United States.
  (2) A copy of this memorial shall be sent to the President of
the United States, to the Senate Majority Leader, to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives and to each member of the Oregon
Congressional Delegation.
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