[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 85 (Monday, June 24, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S5963]
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                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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   SENATE RESOLUTION 289--EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT A 
     COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP SHOULD BE ISSUED TO CELEBRATE THE 
                 BICENTENNIAL OF THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE

  Ms. LANDRIEU (for herself and Mr. Breaux) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Governmental 
Affairs:

                              S. Res. 289

       Resolved,

     SECTION 1. SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT A COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE 
                   STAMP SHOULD BE ISSUED TO CELEBRATE THE 
                   BICENTENNIAL OF THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE.

       (a) Findings.--The Senate finds the following:
       (1) The Bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase occurs in 
     2003, 200 years after the United States, under the Presidency 
     of Thomas Jefferson and after approval by Congress, paid 
     $15,000,000 to acquire the 800,000 square mile territory 
     stretching from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and from the 
     Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
       (2) The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United 
     States and still remains the largest peaceful land 
     transaction in history.
       (3) The Louisiana Purchase, following exploration by 
     Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, allowed an unprecedented 
     age of settlement and achievement by the people of the United 
     States in the Nation's heartland.
       (4) The land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase comprised 
     all or part of the States of Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, 
     Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, 
     New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and 
     Wyoming.
       (5) Commemoration of the Louisiana Purchase and the 
     subsequent opening of the American heartland through the 
     issuance of a United States postage stamp would--
       (A) heighten public awareness of the impact of the 
     Louisiana Purchase on the American society through the 
     expansion and development of the West; and
       (B) benefit the American public by providing a lesson for 
     continued democratic governance in the United States.
       (b) Sense of the Senate.--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 2003 to celebrate the Bicentennial of the 
     Louisiana Purchase.

     SEC. 2. TRANSMITTAL TO CITIZENS' STAMP ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

       The Secretary of the Senate shall transmit a copy of this 
     resolution to the chairperson of the Citizens' Stamp Advisory 
     Committee.




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