[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 591 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 591

To authorize the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America to establish a 
   memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor the 
         victims of the Ukrainian famine-genocide of 1932-1933.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 5, 2003

    Mr. Levin (for himself, Mr. Hoeffel, Mr. Olver, Mr. Weiner, Mr. 
  McNulty, Ms. Slaughter, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Weldon of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
Gutierrez, Mr. Quinn, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. Kildee, 
    Mr. Hinchey, Ms. Berkley, Mr. Wolf, Ms. Watson, Mr. Engel, Ms. 
  Kilpatrick, Mr. Berman, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Payne, Mr. Doggett, Mr. 
 Lipinski, Mr. Holt, Mr. Langevin, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Kucinich, Mr. Davis 
of Illinois, and Mrs. Maloney) introduced the following bill; which was 
                 referred to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America to establish a 
   memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor the 
         victims of the Ukrainian famine-genocide of 1932-1933.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

     Congress finds the following:
            (1) Internationally accepted principles of human rights 
        condemn the use of food as a political weapon.
            (2) In the years 1932-1933, Ukraine was ravaged and its 
        people brought to the verge of physical extinction by a famine 
        caused not by natural causes such as pestilence, drought, 
        floods, or poor harvest, but as a consequence of a premeditated 
        policy on the part of the Soviet Government led by Joseph 
        Stalin to crush the nationally conscious Ukrainian people and 
        destroy their national, political, cultural, and religious 
        rights.
            (3) Attempts at intercessions were made by the United 
        States Government during the height of the famine, in the fall/
        winter of 1932-1933, indicating that it has always been the 
        traditional policy of the United States to recognize events 
        such as the famine-genocide in Ukraine.
            (4) The United States Commission on the Ukraine Famine 
        found in its report filed in 1988 pursuant to Public Law 98-473 
        that the Ukrainian famine was a deliberate policy of the Soviet 
        Government.
            (5) The Ukrainian famine is considered an unprecedented 
        heinous crime of genocide as defined by the United Nations 
        Genocide Convention.
            (6) Ukrainian communities worldwide plan to commemorate the 
        75th anniversary of the Ukrainian famine-genocide with 
        appropriate observances to pay tribute to the victims of this 
        tragedy.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH MEMORIAL.

    (a) In General.--The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America is 
authorized to establish a memorial on Federal land in the District of 
Columbia to honor the victims of the Ukrainian famine-genocide of 1932-
1933.
    (b) Compliance With Standards for Commemorative Works.--The 
establishment of the memorial shall be in accordance with the 
Commemorative Works Act (40 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), except that sections 
2(c), 6(b), 8(b), and 10(c) of that Act shall not apply with respect to 
the memorial.

SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON PAYMENT OF EXPENSES.

     The United States Government shall not pay any expense for the 
establishment of the memorial or its maintenance.
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