H.R. 1302: | Global Poverty Act of 2007 |
110th Congress 2007-2008 |
To require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.
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Full Text | Status: |  | Introduced | Mar 1, 2007 | | Referred to Committee | View Committee Assignments | | Reported by Committee | Jul 31, 2007 | | Passed House | Sep 25, 2007 |  | Senate Vote | (did not occur) | | Signed by President | (did not occur) |
This bill never became law.
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| Last Action: | Sep 26, 2007:
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. | Related: | See the Related Legislation page for other bills related to this one and a list of subject terms
that have been applied to this bill.
Sometimes the text of one bill or resolution is incorporated into another, and in those cases the original bill or resolution, as it would appear here, would seem to be abandoned. | Votes: | Sep 25, 2007:
This bill passed in the House of Representatives by voice vote.
A record of each representative's position was not kept.
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A global carbon tax. This has been mentioned by both the United Nations, as well as the new President Elect Barack Obama. Answered by a visitor on Feb 4, 2009 4:35 PM -
Were do you think it will come from us! The tax payers were everything comes from. Our own country is going to be on a $1 a day if we do not have jobs in our own country. |
Sources of Influence
MAPLight.org reports that the following organizations
have taken a stance on this bill:
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The Borgen Project Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation Population Institute One Sierra Club Peninsula Habitat Habitat for Humanity General Federation of Women's Clubs RESULTS Interaction |
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