About the bill
Should there be no USD for WEF?
Context
The World Economic Forum is a nonprofit organization aiming to solve global society’s problems: environmental, economic, agricultural, technological, educational. Their website lists 274 active projects, including delivering vaccines via drones in India, and aiming to plant 1 trillion trees worldwide.
Based in Switzerland, it’s an independent and nongovernmental organization. Although the Forum is itself nongovernmental, various national governments do contribute money towards it — including the U.S. Last year, host country Switzerland attracted global headlines when they announced they would reduce their annual contribution by -30 percent.
The organization is most famous for its annual meeting in the Swiss luxury resort town Davos, which routinely attracts the planet’s top political officials, business leaders, media giants, and thought …
Sponsor and status
117th Congress (2021–2023)
This bill was introduced on August 26, 2022, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote.
Although this bill was not enacted, its provisions could have become law by being included in another bill. It is common for legislative text to be introduced concurrently in multiple bills (called companion bills), re-introduced in subsequent sessions of Congress in new bills, or added to larger bills (sometimes called omnibus bills).
3 Cosponsors (3 Republicans)
History
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Aug 26, 2022
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Introduced
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Jan 18, 2024
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Reintroduced Bill —
Introduced
This activity took place on a related bill, H.R. 7047 (118th). |
H.R. 8748 (117th) was a bill in the United States Congress.
A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law.
Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 8748. This is the one from the 117th Congress.
This bill was introduced in the 117th Congress, which met from Jan 3, 2021 to Jan 3, 2023. Legislation not passed by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.
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