{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://schweikert.house.gov/2019/12/17/bipartisan-resolution-reaffirming-united-states-commitment-world-trade/", "Bipartisan Resolution Reaffirming United States\u2019 Commitment to the World Trade Organization Led by Reps. Schweikert and Kind Passes Committee", "2019-12-17", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "AZ", "David Schweikert", "S001183", "schweikert.house.gov", "schweikert", "https://schweikert.house.gov/category/congress_press_release/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC\u2014 Today, Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) and Rep. Ron Kind\u2019s (D-WI) bipartisan resolution encouraging the Administration to participate with other World Trade Organization (WTO) members in reforming the Appellate Body to address longstanding concerns and get the Appellate Body in working order passed House Committee on Ways and Means. Schweikert and Kind introduced the resolution earlier this month with a large contingent of Committee members. The resolution now moves onto consideration by the full House.\n\nSpecifically, the resolution reaffirms the United States \u2018commitment as a member of the WTO and work with other WTO members to achieve reforms that will:\n\nImprove the speed and predictability of dispute settlement\n\nAddress longstanding concerns with the WTO\u2019s Appellate Body\n\nIncrease transparency at the WTO\n\nEnsure that WTO members invoke special and differential treatment reserved for developing countries only in fair and appropriate circumstances\n\nUpdate the WTO rules to address the needs of the United States and other free and open economies in the 21st century\n\n\u201cI am pleased to see the WTO resolution pass through the Ways and Means Committee today, reaffirming our support for the World Trade Organization and the widespread agreement on the need for meaningful reforms. Enforcement of our trade with neighbors is essential to maintaining our positive relationships with key allies, and strengthening our global trading abilities. I look forward to seeing this resolution be implemented and working with my Ways and Means colleagues in the future to further strengthen our trading relationships,\u201d said Rep. David Schweikert.\n\nI\u2019m pleased that today we took a bipartisan step closer to the US again holding the pen and working with our allies to give the WTO the reforms it so desperately modernizing it for the 21st century,\u201d said Rep. Ron Kind. \u201cThe WTO is the vital to enforcing the world\u2019s rule-based trading system, resolving trade disputes peacefully, and preventing trade from just being a race to the bottom.\u201d\n\nThe Ways and Means Committee is the most powerful \u2013 and the oldest \u2013 committee in the House of Representatives. It has jurisdiction over tax measures, the management of public debt, trade and tariff laws, Social Security, Medicare, pensions, and many other economic growth measures.\n\nRead the resolution text here.\n\n###\n\nBack to News", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:45:33Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://schweikert.house.gov/2019/12/17/bipartisan-resolution-reaffirming-united-states-commitment-world-trade/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5426632016897202, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}