; Whereas an Interagency Working Group on Cooperative Development was established in the Agricultural Act of 2014 and authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to coordinate and chair an interagency working group to foster cooperative development and ensure coordination with Federal agencies and national and local cooperative organizations that have cooperative programs and interests, and has organized four meetings thus far; Whereas a bipartisan Congressional Cooperative Business Caucus was established and approved by the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives in the 114th and 115th Congress, which united Members of Congress in a cause to create a better informed electorate and a more educated public on the important role that cooperatives play in the national and international economy, to promote the cooperative business model because it ensures consumers have access to high quality goods and services at competitive prices and costs that better the lives of individuals, families, and their communities, and to address and correct awareness challenges among the public and within the Government on what a co-op looks like, who are co-ops, where are co-ops, and why do people choose them; Whereas the Census Bureau, as part of its 2017 Economic Census, will include a question in its survey of all businesses asking if the business is organized as a cooperative which will yield both quantitative and qualitative data on the effects and importance of cooperatives across the American economy; Whereas, annually, the National Cooperative Bank publishes the NCB Co-op 100 , the only annual report of its kind to track the profits and successes of the top 100 revenue-earning cooperative businesses in the United States; and Whereas the national apex organization representing people and organizations that use the cooperative business model to build a better world, the National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International, celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2016: Now, therefore, be it