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Promoting transparency of natural resource revenues in resource-rich developing countries to help combat corruption, encouraging democracy and accountable government in such countries, and ensuring…

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Promoting transparency of natural resource revenues in resource-rich developing countries to help combat corruption, encouraging democracy and accountable government in such countries, and ensuring energy security through a more stable operating environment in such countries.

Introduced: September 12, 2006 Introduced by: Smith, Christopher H. Republican · New Jersey See on congress.gov
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Agreed to (House)
Oct 18, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
Sep 12, 2006
Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Sep 12, 2006
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the U.S. government should: (1) support and participate in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and assist African countries in implementing EITI or in adopting resource revenue transparency policies; (2) work with the international community to develop a monitoring process for nonmining natural resources, such as timber; (3) require natural resource extraction companies to disclose natural resource revenue payments on a country-by-country basis; (4) consider a government's substantive efforts or failure to ensure revenue transparency for critical natural resource sectors when determining eligibility for U.S. trade preference programs; (5) support disclosure of resource revenues and ex-ante disclosure of foreign investment contracts underpinning extractive sector projects, making such disclosures a condition of support for financing by the United States Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Export-Import Bank of the United States; and (6) work with international financial institutions to require resource revenue and contract transparency as a condition for lending or assistance to resource-rich developing countries.

What's happening now October 18, 2006

Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 2 Republican 1
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Boozman, John
Arkansas · Sep 20, 2006
 D
McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Sep 20, 2006
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Meeks, Gregory W.
New York · Sep 20, 2006
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H. Res. 995: Promoting transparency of natural resource revenues in resource-rich developing countries to help combat corruption, encouraging democracy and accountable government in such countries, and ensuring energy security through a more stable operating environment in such countries.. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HRES-995/
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"H. Res. 995: Promoting transparency of natural resource revenues in resource-rich developing countries to help combat corruption, encouraging democracy and accountable government in such countries, and ensuring energy security through a more stable operating environment in such countries.." 109th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HRES-995/.
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H. Res. 995, 109th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HRES-995/.
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