THREE EASY STEPS 

TOWARD GREATER

AMERICAN PROSPERITY 

A U.S. GOVERNMENT

REFORM PROPOSAL

Prepared by 

THE OVERSEAS

AMERICAN ACADEMY 

Geneva, Switzerland 
 

THREE EASY STEPS TOWARD GREATER AMERICAN PROSPERITY 

Current American Policies and Institutional Mechanisms to

Promote and Protect the Interests of the United States by

Providing a Level Playing Field in World Markets are

Obviously Not Working Properly 

This is Causing Great Harm to All Americans,

at Home and Abroad 

Once we Recognize that the Current System is Broken

We Can Start Working Together to Find the Right Way to Fix It 

The Overseas American Academy Proposes the Following Three Easy Steps to Help Solve this Problem  

      Step 1: Let’s Create Eight New “DELEGATES” in the U.S. Congress to be  Directly Elected by Americans Living Abroad 

      Step 2: Let’s Create New “COMMITTEES ON OVERSEASAMERICAN  AFFAIRS” in both Houses of the U.S. Congress 

      Step 3: Let’s Create a New “U.S. DEPARTMENT OF OVERSEAS  AMERICAN AFFAIRS” in the Executive Branch 

“THREE EASY STEPS”

THE DISCUSSION PAPERS 
 

The Overseas American Academy Has Prepared

Four Discussion Papers for this Proposal 

These are: 

Step 1: “The United States Would be a Safer, Stronger, Wiser and More Prosperous Nation if the Private Sector Overseas American Community Had Its Own Direct Representation in the U.S. Congress: So Let’s Create Eight New Directly Elected Delegates to Serve in the House and the Senate with the Title “Delegates from the Overseas American Community”. 

Step 2: “Congress Doesn’t Have the Right Institutional Mechanisms Today to Fully Monitor the Myriad Challenges Associated With “A Level Playing Field” in World Markets: So Let’s Create New Committees in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives to be Entitled: “The Committees on Overseas American Affairs.” 

Step 3:.“The Executive Branch of the U.S. Government is Not Properly Structured Today to Obtain a Coherent Picture of the Myriad Problems Confronting the Overseas American Community or of the Rapidly Changing Nature of a Level Worldwide Playing Field for Trade: So Let’s Create a New Cabinet Level Department to be Entitled “The U.S. Department of Overseas American Affairs”. 

A Background Paper: A three-part background paper has also been prepared as to complete this package of documents. The three components of this paper are entitled: 

BP Part 1 - Legislative Language to Give Overseas Americans Their Own Delegate in the 102^nd U.S. Congress – H.R. 4560 of March 25, 1992

BP Part 2 - Committee Assignments and Leadership Positions of Current Delegates and the Resident Commissioner in the 110^th U.S. Congress

BP Part 3 - Political and Institutional Links Between European Countries and Their Overseas Diasporas. 

For further information please contact 

Andy Sundberg, Secretary and Director 

The Overseas American Academy

157 Route du Grand Lancy,

1213 Onex, Geneva, Switzerland.

Tel: 41-22-792 1659.

Email: andy@sundberg.com