Congressional Resolution against the North American Union

On January 22, 2007, Rep Virgil H. Goode, Jr. [VA-5], sponsored and introduced a resolution "Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada."

Read the full resolution here.

See a complete list of the resolution's co-sponsors here.

The resolution was of course promptly referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, who in turn, sent it to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

And in committee it will stay until the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi brings it to the floor for a vote.

Until then, I certainly hope the committee members are actually weighing the pros and cons of this thing. However, for some reason it is much easier for me to envision them playing golf with their special interest buddies or plotting around a poker table, using our tax dollars as the ante instead of actually doing the job we elected and pay them to do.