[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 327 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 327

    Recognizing the 218th anniversary of the United States Marshals 
                                Service.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 24, 2007

    Mrs. Dole (for herself and Mr. Kennedy) submitted the following 
    resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
    Recognizing the 218th anniversary of the United States Marshals 
                                Service.

Whereas the United States Marshals Service was formed as a result of the 
        Judiciary Act of September 24, 1789, and the first 13 United States 
        Marshals were appointed by President George Washington with their 
        primary mission being to support the Federal courts;
Whereas, in the early years, United States Marshals and Deputy United States 
        Marshals executed warrants, distributed presidential proclamations, 
        protected the president, registered enemy aliens in time of war, pursued 
        counterfeiters, and helped conduct the national census, and later 
        maintained law and order in the ``Wild West'', helped contain the 
        uprising at Wounded Knee, kept the trains rolling during the Pullman 
        Strike in 1894, and enforced the 18th Amendment during Prohibition;
Whereas, on November 14, 1960, 4 Deputy United States Marshals accompanied 6-
        year-old Ruby Bridges to her elementary school after a Federal judge 
        ordered the desegregation of the New Orleans public school system, and, 
        in 1962, when James Meredith sought to legally become the first Black 
        person to attend the University of Mississippi, the duty of upholding 
        the Federal law allowing him to do so fell upon the shoulders of 127 
        Deputy Marshals from all over the country who risked their lives to make 
        his dream a reality;
Whereas Deputy United States Marshals assisted in restoring order after the Los 
        Angeles riots in 1992, provided security to 18 airports in the hours and 
        days following the attacks on September 11, 2001, played an instrumental 
        role in the ``DC Sniper'' investigation, were deployed to the Gulf Coast 
        after Hurricane Katrina, and provided security for the trials of 
        Oklahoma bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh and Al-Qaeda conspirator 
        Zacarias Moussaoui;
Whereas, in August 2007, Deputy Marshals participated in the manhunt for 
        fugitive Paul Devoe who was wanted for 5 murders in Texas and another in 
        Pennsylvania, and who was apprehended in Shirley, New York, by the 
        United States Marshals Service's New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive 
        Task Force;
Whereas, over the past 218 years, the Marshals Service has grown and evolved 
        into a modern law enforcement agency, still charged with protecting the 
        Federal judiciary, but also with apprehending dangerous fugitives, 
        conducting protective operations, ensuring the security of witnesses and 
        their families, providing for the custody and transportation of Federal 
        prisoners, managing the Federal Government's seized asset program, and 
        conducting special operations as required by the Attorney General, and 
        no other law enforcement agency has as many diverse missions and is as 
        versatile;
Whereas over 200 United States Marshals, Deputy Marshals, and Special Deputy 
        Marshals have given their lives in service to their Nation; and
Whereas, as the times have changed, the missions of the United States Marshals 
        have changed, but the Marshals Service has answered the call to duty 
        without exception: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) honors the 5,000 members of the United States Marshals 
        Service who every day carry out complex and life-threatening 
        missions with integrity, skill, and valor on behalf of their 
        Nation;
            (2) commends United States Marshals Service Director John 
        Clark for his service and leadership; and
            (3) thanks the United States Marshals Service for its 
        contributions as the agency celebrates its 218th anniversary.
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