Florida Senate - 2012                             CS for SM 1486
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability;
       and Senator Braynon
       
       
       
       585-02806-12                                          20121486c1
    1                           Senate Memorial                         
    2         A memorial to the Congress of the United States,
    3         urging Congress to pass H.R. 2918, the Taiwan Policy
    4         Act of 2011.
    5  
    6         WHEREAS, H.R. 2918, the Taiwan Policy Act of 2011, was
    7  introduced on September 14, 2011, and is currently pending
    8  before the 112th Congress, and
    9         WHEREAS, H.R. 2918 seeks to encourage and strengthen the
   10  commercial, cultural, and other interests between the people of
   11  the United States and Taiwan, as set forth in the Taiwan
   12  Relations Act which was enacted in 1979 (Public Law 96–8; 22
   13  U.S.C. ss. 3301 et seq.) and which has served for 33 years as
   14  the foundation of United States-Taiwan relations, and
   15         WHEREAS, we are reminded that the Taiwan Relations Act has
   16  functioned to ensure peace and stability in the Western Pacific
   17  and that it continues to be a priority of the United States to
   18  maintain that international stability, and
   19         WHEREAS, this nation must be vigilant to encourage the
   20  secure future of Taiwan and must do all that is within our
   21  ability to encourage the military self-defense capabilities of
   22  Taiwan, and
   23         WHEREAS, economically, Taiwan is the ninth largest trading
   24  partner with the United States and that trade translated into
   25  approximately $57 billion in 2010, and
   26         WHEREAS, both nations realize that it is in the best
   27  economic interests of the United States and in the national
   28  security interests of Taiwan that these two nations continue to
   29  cultivate the intricate ties between them, NOW, THEREFORE,
   30  
   31  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   32  
   33         That the Congress of the United States is urged to pass
   34  H.R. 2918, the “Taiwan Policy Act of 2011,” in recognition that
   35  the passage of the act is a necessary step toward nurturing and
   36  maintaining the diverse interests that bind the people of the
   37  United States and the people of Taiwan.
   38         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
   39  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
   40  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
   41  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
   42  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.