[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8734 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8734

   To provide that no Federal funds shall be used to alter, change, 
   destroy, or remove, in whole or in part, any name, face, or other 
            feature on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 19, 2022

 Mr. Johnson of South Dakota introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide that no Federal funds shall be used to alter, change, 
   destroy, or remove, in whole or in part, any name, face, or other 
            feature on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

    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 ``Mount Rushmore Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Mount Rushmore National Memorial is America's Shrine of 
        Democracy.
            (2) The Mount Rushmore National Memorial depicts the faces 
        of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore 
        Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, with the beauty of the Black 
        Hills of South Dakota.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS.

    No Federal funds shall be used to alter, change, destroy, or 
remove, in whole or in part, any name, face, or other feature on the 
Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
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