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SJR 18                                                                                                                        
The Resources Committee considered SENATE JOINT                                                                                 
RESOLUTION NO. 18 Supporting the leases issued by the United                                                                    
States Department of the Interior to Royal Dutch Shell in the Chukchi                                                           
and Beaufort Seas; urging the Governor of the State of Washington,                                                              
the Seattle City Council, and other public officials in the State of                                                            
Washington to refrain from destructive attacks on the economy, jobs,                                                            
and lives of the people of this state and the State of Washington and to                                                        
look first at closing the Boeing production facilities to reduce                                                                
emissions of carbon dioxide from commercial activity; inviting Royal                                                            
Dutch Shell to use a port in this state as the homeport of its Arctic                                                           
drilling fleet if the lease with the Port of Seattle is terminated; and                                                         
requesting that the Alaska Congressional delegation support restricting                                                         
the Export-Import Bank of the United States to lending only to small                                                            
businesses, and recommended it be replaced with                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
                        CS FOR SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION                                                                         
          NO. 18(RES)                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
Signing do pass: Senator Giessel, Chair; Senators Costello, Coghill,                                                            
Micciche, Stedman, Stoltze.                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
The following fiscal information was published today:                                                                           
     Fiscal Note No. 1, zero, Senate Resources Committee                                                                        
                                                                                                                                

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The resolution was referred to the Rules Committee.