House - 07/22/2002 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. (All Actions)
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Shown Here: Engrossed in House (07/22/2002)
[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H. Res. 471 Engrossed in House (EH)]
In the House of Representatives, U.S.,
July 22, 2002.
Whereas the poinsettia, native to Central America, flourished in the area of
southern Mexico known as Taxco del Alarcon, where the Aztecs used it
both decoratively and to make practical substances, including medicine
to treat fever and dye for textiles and cosmetics;
Whereas the poinsettia was first brought to the United States by Joel Roberts
Poinsett, the United States Ambassador to Mexico from 1825 to 1829, who
collected specimens of the flower while serving as Ambassador and sent
them to his greenhouses in South Carolina;
Whereas Paul Ecke, Jr. has been known and revered for more than five decades as
an outstanding business and community leader in the region of San Diego,
California, and in both the domestic and international floral
industries;
Whereas the Ecke Ranch, established by Paul Ecke, Sr. and subsequently owned and
developed by Paul Ecke Jr. and now by his son, Paul Ecke III, has
created a worldwide poinsettia market;
Whereas the genetic work of the Ecke Ranch has been licensed to growers
everywhere, and poinsettia lines developed there are responsible for
more than 80 percent of the world poinsettia market;
Whereas by revolutionizing the way poinsettias are bred, produced, and sold,
Paul Ecke, Jr. helped to make poinsettias the best-selling potted
flowering plant in the United States and in the world;
Whereas in 2001 poinsettias contributed $256,000,000 in sales at the wholesale
level to the United States economy alone, and many times that amount to
the economies of countries all over the world;
Whereas December 12 has been traditionally recognized as ``National Poinsettia
Day'' for more than 150 years; and
Whereas Paul Ecke, Jr. led the horticultural industry's successful effort to
include, for the first time, significant research funding for floral and
nursery crops in the research budget of the United States Department of
Agriculture: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
(1) recognizes Paul Ecke, Jr.'s legendary energy, generosity,
integrity, optimism, determination, and love of people which have
enabled him to develop the poinsettia industry as well as to touch and
improve the lives of children and adults all over the world through his
extraordinary contributions; and
(2) extends its condolences to the Ecke Family and to the floral
industry on the death of Paul Ecke, Jr., who was a philanthropist, and
advocate for education, and a warm, loving, and brilliant human being.
Attest:
Clerk.