[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 591 Introduced in House (IH)]






107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 591

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the National 
 Park Service should form a committee for the purpose of establishing 
          guidelines to launch a national design competition.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 16, 2002

  Mr. Blunt (for himself, Mr. Clay, Mr. Graves, Mr. Hulshof, and Mr. 
Skelton) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the National 
 Park Service should form a committee for the purpose of establishing 
          guidelines to launch a national design competition.

Whereas President Thomas Jefferson received the approval of Congress on 6 
        February 28, 1803, to fund an expedition into the West with orders to 
        explore the Missouri River and such tributaries as might lead to the 
        Pacific Ocean on the most direct and practicable water route for 
        purposes of commerce, in addition to which, the expedition was to gather 
        scientific and geographical information, and to encourage peace among 
        any Indian Nations encountered;
Whereas Meriwether Lewis, Captain of the First Regiment of Infantry, and former 
        Secretary to President Jefferson, was appointed to lead the expedition, 
        and he selected, with the approval of the President, William Clark to 
        serve equally as a Captain in a leadership role;
Whereas the Expedition returned to St. Louis, Missouri, on September 23, 1806, 
        after a 28-month journey covering 8,000 miles during which it traversed 
        11 future States: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, North 
        Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon; and
Whereas the expedition was one of the most remarkable and productive scientific 
        and military exploratory expeditions in all American history: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives directs the National 
Park Service to form a committee for the purpose of establishing 
guidelines to launch a national design competition for the following 
project: In as much as Congress desires to memorialize the Lewis and 
Clark Expedition and because the City of Louis was the departing and 
returning points of the Expedition as depicted by its Gateway to the 
West Arch, therefore the City of St. Louis should display a proper 
recognition of these great men in the form of a heroic sculpture 
portraying the Expedition to be built in the Luther Ely Smith Park in 
downtown St. Louis, which lies between the Arch and the Old Courthouse, 
all now governed by the National Park Service.
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