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Recognizing the warm friendship and expanding strategic relationship between the United States and Brazil, commending Brazil on successfully reducing its dependence on oil by finding alternative ways to satisfy its energy needs, and recognizing the importance of the March 9, 2007, United States-Brazil Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on biofuels cooperation.
Other Bill Titles (1 more) 10/9/2007--Passed House amended. Recognizes:
(1) that the United States and Brazil have arrived at the point of a strategic confluence of interests and urges President George W. Bush to continue to deepen the bilateral relationship between the two countries; and
(2)b> Brazil's role as a leader in the Western Hemisphere and commends its leadership of the United Nations Stabilization Mission (MINUSTAH) in Haiti.
Commends:
(1) Brazil for successfully diversifying its energy resources and reducing its dependence on oil; and
(2) joint efforts by the United States and Brazil to use expertise to provide technical assistance for biofuels industries in third countries, currently including the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, and St. Kitts and Nevis.
Expresses support for the March 9, 2007, United States-Brazil Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on biofuels as a major step forward in bilateral relations, hemispheric integration, and energy diversification.
Encourages U.S. and Brazilian officials to quickly identify additional countries in the Western Hemisphere to receive technical assistance related to biofuels.
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| Introduced |  | Voted on by House |
| September 17, 2007 | October 09, 2007 |
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February 05, 2008 Recognizing the warm friendship and expanding strategic ...
... (MOU) on biofuels cooperation : markup before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, on H. Res. 651, September 19, 2007 ...
Source: New Materials in English
October 30, 2007 Subcommittee Hearings and Meetings
H. Res. 651, Recognizing the warm friendship and expanding strategic relationship between the United States and Brazil, commending Brazil on successfully reducing its dependence on oil by finding alternative ways to satisfy its energy ...
Source: Friends of Brad Will
September 26, 2007 Ethanol and Other Biofuels: Potential for US-Brazil Energy Cooperation
H.Res. 651 (Engel) recognizes and supports the importance of the US-Brazil MOU on biofuels. In the 109th Congress, legislation was introduced that would have eliminated current tariffs on foreign ethanol, but in December 2006, ...
Source: Open CRS: Recent Reports
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