; and (B) the lack of effective remedies for unsecured creditors against those territories and the instrumentalities of those territories; and (6) the people of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico deserve to know about the social, political, and legal factors associated with the amount of the public debt of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico accrued over the past 5 decades, and the Federal Government has a responsibility to support efforts to obtain those answers, including public or private efforts to conduct a comprehensive audit of the public debt of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. I Territorial relief 101. Relief through exercise of the power to regulate commerce, the bankruptcy power, and the territorial power (a) In general Pursuant to clauses 3 and 4 of section 8 of article I and clause 2, section 3 of article IV of the Constitution of the United States, any unsecured financial obligation of a qualifying territory or an instrumentality of a qualifying territory that is outstanding is discharged on the date on which a resolution stating that the qualifying territory wishes to discharge the unsecured financial obligations of the qualifying territory and the instrumentalities of the qualifying territory— (1) is adopted by an affirmative vote of more than 1/2 of the members of each house of the legislature of that qualifying territory and is signed by the chief executive of the qualifying territory