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[H.R. 3320 Reported in Senate (RS)]






                                                       Calendar No. 739
110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3320

                          [Report No. 110-336]


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 15, 2007

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

                              May 19, 2008

                Reported by Mr. Biden, with an amendment
  [Omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic]

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To provide assistance for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in 
                            Warsaw, Poland.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Support for the Museum of the 
History of Polish Jews Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Current and future generations benefit greatly by 
        visible reminders and documentation of the historical and 
        cultural roots of their society.
            (2) It is in the national interest of the United States to 
        encourage the preservation and protection of artifacts 
        associated with the heritage of United States citizens who 
        trace their forbearers to other countries and to encourage the 
        collection and dissemination of knowledge about that heritage.
            (3) According to the 2000 United States Census, nearly 
        9,000,000 Americans are of Polish ancestry.
            (4) At the beginning of World War II, Poland had the 
        largest Jewish population in Europe.
            (5) In 1996, Yeshayahu Weinberg, a founding director of Tel 
        Aviv's Diaspora Museum and the United States Holocaust Memorial 
        Museum, created an international team of experts with the goal 
        of establishing a Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
            (6) The Museum of the History of Polish Jews will preserve 
        and present the history of the Jewish people in Poland and the 
        wealth of their culture spanning a period of 1,000 years.
            (7) In 1997, the City of Warsaw donated a parcel of land, 
        opposite the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Memorial, for the explicit 
        use for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
            (8) In 2005, the Government of Poland and the City of 
        Warsaw agreed to provide 40,000,000 Polish zlotys for the 
        construction of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
            (9) In 2005, an international architectural competition 
        selected a Finnish firm to design the building for the Museum 
        of the History of Polish Jews.
            (10) In 2006, the building for the Museum of the History of 
        Polish Jews moved into the last phase of project design.

SEC. 3. ASSISTANCE FOR THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS.

<DELETED>    (a) In General.--Assistance provided by the Bureau of 
Educational and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State shall be 
made available to assist in the development of the permanent collection 
of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Authorization for Assistance.--To carry out the 
purposes of subsection (a), the Secretary of State is authorized to 
provide $5,000,000, which shall remain available until expended, to the 
Museum for the History of Polish Jews.</DELETED>
    (a) Authority.--The Secretary of State is authorized to provide not 
more than $5,000,000 in assistance, on such terms and conditions as the 
Secretary may specify, to fund the establishment of, and maintain the 
permanent collection of, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
    (b) Expiration.--The authority under subsection (a) shall expire on 
October 1, 2010.
                                                       Calendar No. 739

110th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 3320

                          [Report No. 110-336]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

 To provide assistance for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in 
                            Warsaw, Poland.

_______________________________________________________________________

                              May 19, 2008

                       Reported with an amendment