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115th CONGRESS

 1st Session

H. CON. RES. 12

Supporting the designation of the week of September 11 to September 17

                         as ``Patriot Week.

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                   IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           January 24, 2017

Mr. Bishop of Michigan (for himself, Mr. Huizenga, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. 
    Walberg, Mr. Trott, and Mr. Mitchell) submitted the following 

concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight

                        and Government Reform

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                        CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Supporting the designation of the week of September 11 to September 17

                         as ``Patriot Week.

Whereas Congress recognizes that understanding United States history and the

       Nation's first principles are indispensable to the survival of our 
       republic as a free people;

Whereas in great reverence to the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks,

       Congress acknowledges that United States citizens should take time to 
       honor the first principles, founders, documents, and symbols of their 
       history;

Whereas the events that led to the signing of the Constitution of the United

       States by the delegates of the Constitutional Convention on September 
       17, 1787, have significance for every United States citizen and are 
       honored in public schools across the Nation on September 17 of each year 
       as Constitution Day;

Whereas the revolution, the rule of law, social compact, equality, unalienable

       rights, and limited government are the first principles upon which the 
       Nation was founded and flourishes;

Whereas exceptional, visionary, and indispensable Americans such as Thomas

       Paine, Patrick Henry, John Adams, John Marshall, George Washington, 
       Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick 
       Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison 
       founded or advanced the United States;

Whereas the Declaration of Independence, Marbury v. Madison, the resolution of

       Congress of September 28, 1787, submitting the Constitution to the 
       several States, the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and 
       Resolutions, the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution, the 
       Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, the ``I Have a 
       Dream speech, the Bill of Rights, the original unamended Constitution, 
       and the 9th and 10th amendments to the United States Constitution are 
       key documents that embody the first principles and have advanced United 
       States liberty; and

Whereas the Bennington ('76) Flag, the Betsy Ross Flag, the current United

       States Flag, the Suffragist Flag, the Union (Fort Sumter) Flag, the 
       Gadsden Flag, and the flags of the several States are fundamental 
       physical symbols of United States history and freedom that should be 
       studied and remembered by each citizen: Now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 

That Congress--

           (1) supports the designation of ``Patriot Week;
           (2) recognizes that each generation ought to renew the 
       spirit of the Nation based on the first principles, historical 
       figures, founding documents, and symbols of the United States; 
       and
           (3) encourages citizens, schools and other educational 
       institutions, and Federal, State, and local governments and 
       their agencies, to recognize and participate in ``Patriot 
       Week by honoring and celebrating so that all may offer the 
       reverence that is due to the free republic.

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