Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SM 1486
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/01/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability
       (Margolis) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the resolving clause
    4  and insert:
    5         That the Congress of the United States is urged to pass HR
    6  2918, the “Taiwan Policy Act of 2011,” in recognition that the
    7  passage of the act is a necessary step toward nurturing and
    8  maintaining the diverse interests that bind the people of the
    9  United States and the people of Taiwan.
   10         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
   11  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
   12  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
   13  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
   14  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.
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   17  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   18         And the title is amended as follows:
   19         Delete everything before the resolving clause
   20  and insert:
   21                        A bill to be entitled                      
   22         A memorial to the Congress of the United States,
   23         urging Congress to pass HR 2918, the Taiwan Policy Act
   24         of 2011.
   25  
   26         WHEREAS, HR 2918, the Taiwan Policy Act of 2011, was
   27  introduced on September 14, 2011, and is currently pending
   28  before the 112th Congress, and
   29         WHEREAS, HR 2918 seeks to encourage and strengthen the
   30  commercial, cultural, and other interests between the people of
   31  the United States and Taiwan, as set forth in the Taiwan
   32  Relations Act which was enacted in 1979 (Public Law 96–8; 22
   33  U.S.C. ss. 3301 et seq.) and which has served for 33 years as
   34  the foundation of United States-Taiwan relations, and
   35         WHEREAS, we are reminded that the Taiwan Relations Act has
   36  functioned to ensure peace and stability in the Western Pacific
   37  and that it continues to be a priority of the United States to
   38  maintain that international stability, and
   39         WHEREAS, this nation must be vigilant to encourage the
   40  secure future of Taiwan and must do all that is within our
   41  ability to encourage the military self-defense capabilities of
   42  Taiwan, and
   43         WHEREAS, economically, Taiwan is the ninth largest trading
   44  partner with the United States and that trade translated into
   45  approximately $57 billion in 2010, and
   46         WHEREAS, both nations realize that it is in the best
   47  economic interests of the United States and in the national
   48  security interests of Taiwan that these two nations continue to
   49  cultivate the intricate ties between them, NOW, THEREFORE,