[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2969 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2969

   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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 28 (legislative day, September 22), 2023

   Mr. Cruz introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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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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