[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4510 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4510

To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to accept the donation of 
a bust depicting Sojourner Truth and to display the bust in a suitable 
                location in the rotunda of the Capitol.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 13, 2005

 Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas (for herself, Ms. Watson, Mr. Rush, Ms. Lee, 
 Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Ms. Kilpatrick of 
 Michigan, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Serrano, Mrs. Maloney, Mr. 
  Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mr. Meeks of New 
 York, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Chabot, Ms. Millender-McDonald, Ms. Slaughter, 
 Mr. Gilchrest, Mr. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida, Mr. Hoekstra, Ms. 
Woolsey, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Mr. Shimkus, Mr. Markey, Mr. Dingell, 
 Mrs. Capps, and Ms. Matsui) introduced the following bill; which was 
           referred to the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to accept the donation of 
a bust depicting Sojourner Truth and to display the bust in a suitable 
                location in the rotunda of the Capitol.

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

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds as follows:
            (1) Sojourner Truth was a towering figure among the 
        founders of the movement for women's suffrage in the United 
        States, and no monument that does not include her can 
        accurately represent this important development in our Nation's 
        history.
            (2) The statue known as the Portrait Monument, originally 
        presented to Congress in 1920 in honor of the passage of the 
        Nineteenth Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote and 
        presently exhibited in the rotunda of the Capitol, portrays 
        several early suffragists who were Sojourner Truth's 
        contemporaries but not Sojourner Truth herself, the only 
        African American among the group.

SEC. 2. ACCEPTANCE AND DISPLAY OF BUST OF SOJOURNER TRUTH IN ROTUNDA OF 
              CAPITOL.

    (a) Acceptance of Donation of Bust.--Not later than 2 years after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Joint Committee on the 
Library shall accept the donation of a bust depicting Sojourner Truth, 
subject to such terms and conditions as the Joint Committee considers 
appropriate.
    (b) Display.--
            (1) In general.--The Joint Committee shall place the bust 
        accepted under subsection (a) in a suitable permanent location 
        in the rotunda of the Capitol.
            (2) Placement near portrait monument.--It is the sense of 
        Congress that the most suitable location for the placement of 
        the bust accepted under subsection (a) is a location which is 
        adjacent to the statue known as the Portrait Monument.
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