PRINTER'S NO. 1557
No. 278 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY SURRA, BEYER, BIANCUCCI, CLYMER, COHEN, DALEY,
FABRIZIO, GABIG, GEORGE, GIBBONS, GINGRICH, GOODMAN, HARHART,
HORNAMAN, JAMES, KIRKLAND, KORTZ, KOTIK, METCALFE, MUSTIO,
PALLONE, READSHAW, ROHRER, SIPTROTH, TANGRETTI, VULAKOVICH,
J. WHITE, WOJNAROSKI AND YOUNGBLOOD, MAY 18, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS, MAY 18, 2007
A RESOLUTION
1 Opposing any effort to implement a trinational political,
2 governmental entity among the United States, Canada and
3 Mexico; opposing the Security and Prosperity Partnership of
4 North America and initiatives pursued in conjunction with the
5 partnership that threaten the sovereignty of the United
6 States; and opposing a North American Union.
7 WHEREAS, The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North
8 America was launched in March 2005 as a trilateral effort among
9 the United States, Canada and Mexico to share information and
10 streamline traffic across shared borders; and
11 WHEREAS, In meeting Security and Prosperity Partnership
12 initiatives, the security and prosperity ministers are examining
13 opportunities to open the borders between the United States,
14 Canada and Mexico; and
15 WHEREAS, The gradual creation of such a North American Union
16 from a merger of the United States, Canada and Mexico would be a
17 direct threat to the Constitution of the United States and to
18 national independence of the United States and imply an eventual
1 end to national borders within North America; and
2 WHEREAS, The Security and Prosperity Partnership aims to
3 integrate United States laws with laws of Mexico and Canada on a
4 broad range of issues such as e-commerce, transportation,
5 environment, health, agriculture, financial services and
6 national security, which may lead to negative changes in United
7 States administrative laws; and
8 WHEREAS, State and local governments throughout the United
9 States would be negatively impacted by the Security and
10 Prosperity Partnership or the North American Union process, such
11 as an open borders vision, eminent domain takings of private
12 property along potential superhighways and increased law
13 enforcement problems along such superhighways; and
14 WHEREAS, This trilateral partnership to develop a North
15 American Union has never been presented to the Congress of the
16 United States as an agreement or treaty and has had virtually no
17 congressional oversight; and
18 WHEREAS, Initiatives advancing the Security and Prosperity
19 Partnership will lead to the erosion of United States
20 sovereignty and could lead to integrated continental court
21 systems and currency; and
22 WHEREAS, United States policy, not foreign consortia, should
23 be used to control our national borders and to ensure that
24 national security is not compromised; therefore be it
25 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the
26 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania urge the President and Congress of
27 the United States to withdraw the United States from any further
28 participation in the Security and Prosperity Partnership, any
29 efforts to implement a trinational political, governmental
30 entity among the United States, Canada and Mexico or any other
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1 efforts used to accomplish any form of a North American Union;
2 and be it further
3 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
4 the President of the United States, to the Vice President of the
5 United States, to the United States Secretary of Commerce and to
6 each member of Congress from Pennsylvania.
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