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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 361 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To authorize the President to seek to enter into negotiations with the King- |
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| 6 | 6 | | dom of Denmark to secure the acquisition of Greenland by the United |
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| 7 | 7 | | States. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY13, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. O |
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| 11 | 11 | | GLES(for himself, Mr. LAWLER, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. BABIN, Ms. |
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| 12 | 12 | | T |
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| 13 | 13 | | ENNEY, Mr. DUNNof Florida, Mrs. HARSHBARGER, Mr. MOOREof Ala- |
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| 14 | 14 | | bama, Mr. R |
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| 15 | 15 | | ULLI, Mr. WEBERof Texas, Mrs. LUNA, and Mr. OWENS) |
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| 16 | 16 | | introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on |
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| 17 | 17 | | Foreign Affairs |
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| 18 | 18 | | A BILL |
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| 19 | 19 | | To authorize the President to seek to enter into negotiations |
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| 20 | 20 | | with the Kingdom of Denmark to secure the acquisition |
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| 21 | 21 | | of Greenland by the United States. |
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| 22 | 22 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 23 | 23 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 25 | 25 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Make Greenland Great 4 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Again Act’’. 5 |
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| 30 | 30 | | SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION TO ENTER INTO NEGOTIATIONS 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | WITH THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK. 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (a) I |
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| 33 | 33 | | NGENERAL.—Congress hereby authorizes the 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | President, beginning at 12:01 p.m. Eastern Standard 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | Time on January 20, 2025, to seek to enter into negotia-5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | tions with the Kingdom of Denmark to secure the acquisi-6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | tion of Greenland by the United States. 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (b) T |
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| 39 | 39 | | RANSMISSION OFAGREEMENT.—Not later than 8 |
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| 40 | 40 | | 5 calendar days after reaching an agreement with the 9 |
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| 41 | 41 | | Kingdom of Denmark relating to the acquisition of Green-10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | land by the United States, the President shall transmit 11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | to the appropriate congressional committees the agree-12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ment, including all related materials and annexes. 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (c) P |
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| 46 | 46 | | ERIOD OFREVIEW BYCONGRESS OFAGREE-14 |
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| 47 | 47 | | MENT.— 15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (1) I |
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| 49 | 49 | | N GENERAL.—The period for congressional 16 |
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| 50 | 50 | | review for any agreement described in subsection (a) 17 |
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| 51 | 51 | | shall be 60 calendar days from the date on which 18 |
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| 52 | 52 | | the President transmits to the appropriate Congres-19 |
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| 53 | 53 | | sional committees the agreement for the acquisition 20 |
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| 54 | 54 | | of Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark. 21 |
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| 55 | 55 | | (2) E |
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| 56 | 56 | | FFECTIVE DATE.—If no joint resolution of 22 |
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| 57 | 57 | | disapproval is enacted by Congress within the 60- 23 |
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| 58 | 58 | | calendar day period, the agreement described in sub-24 |
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| 59 | 59 | | section (a) shall be in effect and take the full force 25 |
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| 60 | 60 | | of law. 26 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (d) APPROPRIATECONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES 1 |
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| 65 | 65 | | D |
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| 66 | 66 | | EFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con-2 |
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| 67 | 67 | | gressional committees’’ means— 3 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 4 |
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| 69 | 69 | | House of Representatives; and 5 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (2) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 6 |
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| 71 | 71 | | Senate. 7 |
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