[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 289 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 289

 Expressing the sense of the Senate that a commemorative postage stamp 
    should be issued to celebrate the Bicentennial of the Louisiana 
                               Purchase.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 24, 2002

   Ms. Landrieu (for herself and Mr. Breaux) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the Senate that a commemorative postage stamp 
    should be issued to celebrate the Bicentennial of the Louisiana 
                               Purchase.

    Resolved,

SECTION 1. SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT A COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP 
              SHOULD BE ISSUED TO CELEBRATE THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE 
              LOUISIANA PURCHASE.

    (a) Findings.--The Senate finds the following:
            (1) The Bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase occurs in 
        2003, 200 years after the United States, under the Presidency 
        of Thomas Jefferson and after approval by Congress, paid 
        $15,000,000 to acquire the 800,000 square mile territory 
        stretching from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and from the 
        Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
            (2) The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United 
        States and still remains the largest peaceful land transaction 
        in history.
            (3) The Louisiana Purchase, following exploration by 
        Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, allowed an unprecedented 
        age of settlement and achievement by the people of the United 
        States in the Nation's heartland.
            (4) The land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase comprised 
        all or part of the States of Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, 
        Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, 
        North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.
            (5) Commemoration of the Louisiana Purchase and the 
        subsequent opening of the American heartland through the 
        issuance of a United States postage stamp would--
                    (A) heighten public awareness of the impact of the 
                Louisiana Purchase on the American society through the 
                expansion and development of the West; and
                    (B) benefit the American public by providing a 
                lesson for continued democratic governance in the 
                United States.
    (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that the 
Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee should recommend to the Postmaster 
General that a commemorative postage stamp be issued in 2003 to 
celebrate the Bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase.

SEC. 2. TRANSMITTAL TO CITIZENS' STAMP ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

    The Secretary of the Senate shall transmit a copy of this 
resolution to the chairperson of the Citizens' Stamp Advisory 
Committee.
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