BILL REQ. #:  S-0773.1 

Read first time 01/23/2007.   Referred to Committee on Economic Development, Trade & Management.

     TO THE HONORABLE GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED:
     We, your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent and petition as follows:
     WHEREAS, President George W. Bush established the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America, with the nations of Mexico and Canada on March 23, 2005; and
     WHEREAS, A television reporter asked President Bush on March 23, 2005, whether, in light of the European Union, the SPP was a step towards continental integration, and he responded, "So that the vision that you asked about in your questions as to what kind of union might there be, I see one based upon free trade, that would then entail commitment to markets and democracy, transparency, rule of law"; and
     WHEREAS, The gradual creation of a North American Union from a merger between the United States, Mexico, and Canada would be a direct threat to the Constitution and national independence of the United States, and imply an eventual end to the national borders within North America; and
     WHEREAS, On March 31, 2006, a White House news release confirmed the continuing existence of the SPP and its "ongoing process of cooperation"; and
     WHEREAS, Congressman Ron Paul has written that a key to the SPP plan is an extensive new NAFTA superhighway: "[U]nder this new 'partnership,' a massive highway is being planned to stretch from Canada into Mexico through the state of Texas."; and
     WHEREAS, This trilateral partnership to develop a North American Union has never been presented to Congress as an agreement or treaty, and has had virtually no congressional oversight; and
     WHEREAS, State and local governments throughout the United States would be negatively impacted by the SPP/North American Union process, such as the "open borders" vision of the SPP, eminent domain takings of private property along the planned superhighways, and increased law enforcement problems along those same superhighways;
     NOW, THEREFORE, Your Memorialists respectfully pray that the Congress of the United States, and particularly the legislative delegation to Congress of the state of Washington, use all of their efforts, energies, and diligence to withdraw the United States from any further participation in the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America and any other bilateral or multilateral activity however named that seeks to advance, authorize, fund, or in any way promote the creation of any structure to accomplish any form of North American Union as herein described.
     BE IT RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be immediately transmitted to the Honorable George W. Bush, President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and each member of Congress from the State of Washington.