[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 113 Introduced in House (IH)]
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118th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. CON. RES. 113
Recognizing the life, achievements, and public service of former
President George H.W. Bush on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 12, 2024
Mr. Pfluger (for himself, Ms. Granger, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Ellzey, Mr.
Luttrell, Mr. Williams of Texas, Mr. Babin, Mr. Fallon, Mr. McCaul, Mr.
Weber of Texas, Mrs. Fletcher, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Moran, Mr. Jackson of
Texas, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Gooden of Texas, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Self, Mr.
Arrington, Mr. Bacon, Mrs. Bice, Mr. Lawler, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr.
Graves of Missouri, Mr. Donalds, Mr. Guthrie, and Mr. LaTurner)
submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to
the Committee on Oversight and Accountability
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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Recognizing the life, achievements, and public service of former
President George H.W. Bush on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
Whereas, on June 12, 1924, George Herbert Walker Bush was born in Milton,
Massachusetts;
Whereas George H.W. Bush enlisted in the United States Navy as a naval aviator
on his 18th birthday, eventually flying his first combat mission in May
1944, bombing Japanese-held Wake Island;
Whereas George H.W. Bush was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his role
in Chichi Jima where he successfully bailed from his aircraft and evaded
capture;
Whereas George H.W. Bush retired from the Navy having flown 58 active missions,
completed 128 career landings, and recorded 1228 hours of flight time;
Whereas George H.W. Bush enrolled at Yale College, where he graduated in two and
a half years;
Whereas, in college, George H.W. Bush captained the Yale baseball team and
played in the first two College World Series;
Whereas George H.W. Bush married Barbara Pierce on January 6, 1945;
Whereas George H.W. Bush had six children, George W., Robin, Jeb, Neil, Marvin,
and Dorothy;
Whereas, in June 1948, the young Bush family moved to West Texas, where one of
Mr. Bush's companies, Zapata, eventually became the Pennzoil
Corporation, while Zapata Off-shore Co. pioneered in offshore drilling
with operations in the Gulf of Mexico, Brunei, Venezuela, the Sea of
Japan, and the Persian Gulf;
Whereas George H.W. Bush was elected as Chairman of the Harris County Republican
Party in 1963;
Whereas, in 1966, George H.W. Bush ran for the House of Representatives for
Texas' 7th Congressional District, and won;
Whereas George H.W. Bush was appointed as the United States Ambassador to the
United Nations in 1970;
Whereas George H.W. Bush was appointed as the Chair of the Republican National
Committee in 1972;
Whereas George H.W. Bush was confirmed as the Director of Central Intelligence
in 1976;
Whereas, at the 1980 Republican National Convention, Republican Presidential
nominee Ronald Reagan selected George H.W. Bush as his Vice Presidential
nominee;
Whereas George H.W. Bush assumed the role of Vice President in 1981;
Whereas the Reagan-Bush administration was reelected for a second term in 1984;
Whereas, in 1988, George H.W. Bush became the Presidential nominee, with running
mate Dan Quayle, Senator from Indiana;
Whereas George H.W. Bush won the election with over 400 electoral votes, which
remains the most recent election in which a candidate won over 400
electoral votes;
Whereas, during President Bush's term in the Oval Office, a revolution of human
liberty swept the globe, emancipating tens of millions of people and
unleashing a series of transformative events;
Whereas freedom prevailed in the Cold War as the Soviet Union imploded, the
Berlin Wall ``fell'', and Germany united within the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization following 45 years of postwar division, and from
Eastern Europe to the Baltic states to Latin America to the former
Soviet republics, many liberal democracies supplanted totalitarian
regimes;
Whereas President Bush worked with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and other key
global figures to end the Cold War peacefully and usher in a new
geopolitical era marked by political self-determination, the spread of
market capitalism, and the opening of closed economies;
Whereas, in August 1990, after Iraqi troops under dictator Saddam Hussein
invaded neighboring Kuwait, President Bush forged a coalition of 32
countries to restore Kuwaiti sovereignty and uphold international law;
Whereas, despite being the first sitting Vice President elected to the
Presidency since Martin van Buren in 1837, and only the second United
States President elected to serve a full term without party control in
either chamber of Congress, President Bush signed into law the Americans
with Disabilities Act, which, among other accomplishments, eliminated
the barriers to employment, public accommodations, and transportation
services for some 43,000,000 citizens with disabilities;
Whereas George Bush also signed the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, which
guided United States environmental policy for more than two decades;
Whereas the education summit Mr. Bush hosted in 1989 with all 50 United States
governors at the University of Virginia helped to spur a national reform
movement, and the 1990 budget agreement he signed codified into law real
caps on discretionary spending by Congress while cutting the deficit by
historic levels;
Whereas President Bush launched his ``Points of Light'' initiative to promote
volunteerism and community service across the United States, and during
his term in office named 1,020 Daily Points of Light hailing from all 50
States;
Whereas the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum was built in 1997
on the campus of Texas A&M University;
Whereas the Bush School of Government and Public Service was founded in 1997 on
the campus of Texas A&M University;
Whereas, after leaving the White House, President Bush chaired the Board of
Visitors at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center from
2001 to 2003, and later with his wife, Barbara, Mr. Bush served as
honorary cochair of C-Change, a collaborative group of key cancer
leaders from the government, business, and nonprofit sectors who are
committed to eliminate cancer as a major public health problem;
Whereas, in 1997, the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston was
renamed in his honor;
Whereas the USS George H.W. Bush, the tenth and final Nimitz-class supercarrier
of the United States Navy, was commissioned in 2009; and
Whereas, at the time of their passing in 2018, George H.W. and Barbara Bush had
been married for 73 years and were survived by 5 children and their
spouses, 17 grandchildren, and 8 great-grandchildren: Now, therefore, be
it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),
That Congress--
(1) honors the life, achievements, and distinguished public
service of George Herbert Walker Bush;
(2) recognizes George Herbert Walker Bush on the occasion
of his 100th birthday and expresses thanks and commendations to
him and his family;
(3) acknowledges the positive impact George Herbert Walker
Bush contributed to his country and the world through his
decency and compassion; and
(4) establishes the legacy of George Herbert Walker Bush as
one of the great leaders and statesmen of the United States.
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