[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 113 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 113

   Recognizing the life, achievements, and public service of former 
   President George H.W. Bush on the occasion of his 100th birthday.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 12, 2024

 Mr. Pfluger (for himself, Ms. Granger, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. 
Luttrell, Mr. Williams of Texas, Mr. Babin, Mr. Fallon, Mr. McCaul, Mr. 
Weber of Texas, Mrs. Fletcher, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Moran, Mr. Jackson of 
 Texas, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Gooden of Texas, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Self, Mr. 
   Arrington, Mr. Bacon, Mrs. Bice, Mr. Lawler, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. 
    Graves of Missouri, Mr. Donalds, Mr. Guthrie, and Mr. LaTurner) 
 submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to 
             the Committee on Oversight and Accountability

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
   Recognizing the life, achievements, and public service of former 
   President George H.W. Bush on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

Whereas, on June 12, 1924, George Herbert Walker Bush was born in Milton, 
        Massachusetts;
Whereas George H.W. Bush enlisted in the United States Navy as a naval aviator 
        on his 18th birthday, eventually flying his first combat mission in May 
        1944, bombing Japanese-held Wake Island;
Whereas George H.W. Bush was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his role 
        in Chichi Jima where he successfully bailed from his aircraft and evaded 
        capture;
Whereas George H.W. Bush retired from the Navy having flown 58 active missions, 
        completed 128 career landings, and recorded 1228 hours of flight time;
Whereas George H.W. Bush enrolled at Yale College, where he graduated in two and 
        a half years;
Whereas, in college, George H.W. Bush captained the Yale baseball team and 
        played in the first two College World Series;
Whereas George H.W. Bush married Barbara Pierce on January 6, 1945;
Whereas George H.W. Bush had six children, George W., Robin, Jeb, Neil, Marvin, 
        and Dorothy;
Whereas, in June 1948, the young Bush family moved to West Texas, where one of 
        Mr. Bush's companies, Zapata, eventually became the Pennzoil 
        Corporation, while Zapata Off-shore Co. pioneered in offshore drilling 
        with operations in the Gulf of Mexico, Brunei, Venezuela, the Sea of 
        Japan, and the Persian Gulf;
Whereas George H.W. Bush was elected as Chairman of the Harris County Republican 
        Party in 1963;
Whereas, in 1966, George H.W. Bush ran for the House of Representatives for 
        Texas' 7th Congressional District, and won;
Whereas George H.W. Bush was appointed as the United States Ambassador to the 
        United Nations in 1970;
Whereas George H.W. Bush was appointed as the Chair of the Republican National 
        Committee in 1972;
Whereas George H.W. Bush was confirmed as the Director of Central Intelligence 
        in 1976;
Whereas, at the 1980 Republican National Convention, Republican Presidential 
        nominee Ronald Reagan selected George H.W. Bush as his Vice Presidential 
        nominee;
Whereas George H.W. Bush assumed the role of Vice President in 1981;
Whereas the Reagan-Bush administration was reelected for a second term in 1984;
Whereas, in 1988, George H.W. Bush became the Presidential nominee, with running 
        mate Dan Quayle, Senator from Indiana;
Whereas George H.W. Bush won the election with over 400 electoral votes, which 
        remains the most recent election in which a candidate won over 400 
        electoral votes;
Whereas, during President Bush's term in the Oval Office, a revolution of human 
        liberty swept the globe, emancipating tens of millions of people and 
        unleashing a series of transformative events;
Whereas freedom prevailed in the Cold War as the Soviet Union imploded, the 
        Berlin Wall ``fell'', and Germany united within the North Atlantic 
        Treaty Organization following 45 years of postwar division, and from 
        Eastern Europe to the Baltic states to Latin America to the former 
        Soviet republics, many liberal democracies supplanted totalitarian 
        regimes;
Whereas President Bush worked with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and other key 
        global figures to end the Cold War peacefully and usher in a new 
        geopolitical era marked by political self-determination, the spread of 
        market capitalism, and the opening of closed economies;
Whereas, in August 1990, after Iraqi troops under dictator Saddam Hussein 
        invaded neighboring Kuwait, President Bush forged a coalition of 32 
        countries to restore Kuwaiti sovereignty and uphold international law;
Whereas, despite being the first sitting Vice President elected to the 
        Presidency since Martin van Buren in 1837, and only the second United 
        States President elected to serve a full term without party control in 
        either chamber of Congress, President Bush signed into law the Americans 
        with Disabilities Act, which, among other accomplishments, eliminated 
        the barriers to employment, public accommodations, and transportation 
        services for some 43,000,000 citizens with disabilities;
Whereas George Bush also signed the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, which 
        guided United States environmental policy for more than two decades;
Whereas the education summit Mr. Bush hosted in 1989 with all 50 United States 
        governors at the University of Virginia helped to spur a national reform 
        movement, and the 1990 budget agreement he signed codified into law real 
        caps on discretionary spending by Congress while cutting the deficit by 
        historic levels;
Whereas President Bush launched his ``Points of Light'' initiative to promote 
        volunteerism and community service across the United States, and during 
        his term in office named 1,020 Daily Points of Light hailing from all 50 
        States;
Whereas the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum was built in 1997 
        on the campus of Texas A&M University;
Whereas the Bush School of Government and Public Service was founded in 1997 on 
        the campus of Texas A&M University;
Whereas, after leaving the White House, President Bush chaired the Board of 
        Visitors at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center from 
        2001 to 2003, and later with his wife, Barbara, Mr. Bush served as 
        honorary cochair of C-Change, a collaborative group of key cancer 
        leaders from the government, business, and nonprofit sectors who are 
        committed to eliminate cancer as a major public health problem;
Whereas, in 1997, the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston was 
        renamed in his honor;
Whereas the USS George H.W. Bush, the tenth and final Nimitz-class supercarrier 
        of the United States Navy, was commissioned in 2009; and
Whereas, at the time of their passing in 2018, George H.W. and Barbara Bush had 
        been married for 73 years and were survived by 5 children and their 
        spouses, 17 grandchildren, and 8 great-grandchildren: Now, therefore, be 
        it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That Congress--
            (1) honors the life, achievements, and distinguished public 
        service of George Herbert Walker Bush;
            (2) recognizes George Herbert Walker Bush on the occasion 
        of his 100th birthday and expresses thanks and commendations to 
        him and his family;
            (3) acknowledges the positive impact George Herbert Walker 
        Bush contributed to his country and the world through his 
        decency and compassion; and
            (4) establishes the legacy of George Herbert Walker Bush as 
        one of the great leaders and statesmen of the United States.
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