[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7468 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7468

   To ensure that United States diplomats and officials of the U.S. 
Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission are able to 
 advance efforts seeking compliance by the United Mexican States with 
 the 1944 Treaty on Utilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana 
                     Rivers and of the Rio Grande.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 28, 2024

Ms. De La Cruz (for herself, Mr. Cuellar, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Self, 
   Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Jackson of Texas, Mr. Nehls, Ms. Crockett, Mr. 
 Sessions, Mr. Carter of Texas, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Vicente Gonzalez of 
Texas, Mr. Pfluger, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Gooden of Texas, Mr. Tony Gonzales of 
 Texas, Mr. Moran, Mr. Arrington, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Babin, Mr. 
McCaul, Mr. Cloud, Mr. Fallon, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Williams of Texas, Mr. 
 Roy, Mr. Ellzey, Ms. Escobar, Mr. Castro of Texas, Mr. Luttrell, Mrs. 
 Fletcher, Mr. Veasey, and Ms. Granger) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To ensure that United States diplomats and officials of the U.S. 
Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission are able to 
 advance efforts seeking compliance by the United Mexican States with 
 the 1944 Treaty on Utilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana 
                     Rivers and of the Rio Grande.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ADVANCING EFFORTS SEEKING COMPLIANCE BY MEXICO WITH TREATY 
              ON UTILIZATION OF WATERS OF THE COLORADO AND TIJUANA 
              RIVERS AND OF THE RIO GRANDE.

    The Secretary of State shall use the voice, vote, diplomatic 
capital, and resources of the United States to ensure that United 
States diplomats and officials of the U.S. Section of the International 
Boundary and Water Commission are able to advance efforts seeking 
compliance by the United Mexican States with the Treaty on Utilization 
of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande, 
signed at Washington February 3, 1944, and to establish understandings 
to provide predictable and reliable future deliveries of water by the 
United Mexican States.
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