109 HR 4510 IH: 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. U.S. House of Representatives 2005-12-13 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I 109th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4510 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 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.

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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.

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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.