[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 3 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. CON. RES. 3

  Expressing the sense of Congress that a commemorative postage stamp 
  should be issued in honor of the U.S.S. Wisconsin and all those who 
                           served aboard her.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 24, 2001

   Mr. Feingold (for himself, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Bayh, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. 
Conrad, Mr. Daschle, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Kerry, 
    Mr. Leahy, Mr. McCain, Mr. Miller, Mr. Murkowski, Mr. Reid, Mr. 
    Torricelli, and Mr. Warner) submitted the following concurrent 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of Congress that a commemorative postage stamp 
  should be issued in honor of the U.S.S. Wisconsin and all those who 
                           served aboard her.

Whereas the Iowa Class Battleship, the U.S.S. Wisconsin (BB-64), is an honored 
        warship in United States naval history, with 6 battle stars and 5 
        citations and medals during her 55 years of service;
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin was launched on December 7, 1943, by the 
        Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, sponsored by Mrs. Walter S. Goodland, wife 
        of then-Governor Goodland of Wisconsin, and commissioned at 
        Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 16, 1944, with Captain Earl E. 
        Stone in command;
Whereas her first action for Admiral William ``Bull'' Halsey's Third Fleet was a 
        strike by her task force against the Japanese facilities in Manila, 
        thereby supporting the amphibious assault on the Island of Mindoro, 
        which was a vital maneuver in the defeat of the Japanese forces in the 
        Philippines;
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin joined the Fifth Fleet to provide strategic cover 
        for the assault on Iwo Jima by striking the Tokyo area;
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin supplied crucial firepower for the invasion of 
        Okinawa;
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin served as a flagship for the Seventh Fleet during 
        the Korean conflict;
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin provided consistent naval gunfire support during 
        the Korean conflict to the First Marine Division, the First Republic of 
        Korea Corps, and United Nations forces;
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin received 5 battle stars for World War II and one 
        for the Korean conflict;
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin returned to combat on January 17, 1991;
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin served as Tomahawk strike warfare commander for the 
        Persian Gulf, and directed the sequence of Tomahawk launches that 
        initiated Operation Desert Storm; and
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin, decommissioned on September 30, 1991, is berthed 
        at Nauticus, the National Maritime Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, where 
        she will serve as a floating monument and an educational museum: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) a commemorative postage stamp should be issued by the 
        United States Postal Service in honor of the U.S.S. Wisconsin 
        and all those who served aboard her; and
            (2) the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee should recommend 
        to the Postmaster General that such a postage stamp be issued.
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