[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 269 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 269

 Expressing 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 honor of former United States 
                     Representative Barbara Jordan.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 12, 2007

 Mr. Lautenberg (for himself, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Menendez, Mr. 
Specter, Mr. Levin, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Obama, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Durbin, 
  Mr. Biden, Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. Dodd, Mrs. Boxer, and Ms. Landrieu) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
             on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing 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 honor of former United States 
                     Representative Barbara Jordan.

Whereas, in 1966, Barbara Jordan became the first African American since 1883 to 
        serve in the Texas Senate, where she served with distinction until 1972;
Whereas Barbara Jordan became the first African American United States 
        Representative from Texas when she won election to represent Texas's 
        18th District in the United States House of Representatives in 1972;
Whereas, from 1979 to 1996, Barbara Jordan served as a distinguished professor 
        at the University of Texas Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, 
        where she also held the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National 
        Policy;
Whereas President Bill Clinton awarded Barbara Jordan the Presidential Medal of 
        Freedom, the Nation's highest civilian honor, in August 1994; and
Whereas Barbara Jordan was a pioneer whose devotion to civil rights for all 
        people in the United States resonates to this day: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That 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 honor of former United 
States Representative Barbara Jordan.
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