[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 147 (Thursday, November 14, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H8879]
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  SENSE OF HOUSE THAT NATIONAL PARK SERVICE SHOULD FORM COMMITTEE FOR 
        ESTABLISHING GUIDELINES FOR NATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION

  Mr. HANSEN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Resources be discharged from further consideration of the resolution 
(H. Res. 591) expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the National Park Service should form a committee for the purpose of 
establishing guidelines to launch a national design competition, and 
ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Utah?
  There was no objection.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 591

       Whereas President Thomas Jefferson received the approval of 
     Congress on 6 February 28, 1803, to fund an expedition into 
     the West with orders to explore the Missouri River and such 
     tributaries as might lead to the Pacific Ocean on the most 
     direct and practicable water route for purposes of commerce, 
     in addition to which, the expedition was to gather scientific 
     and geographical information, and to encourage peace among 
     any Indian Nations encountered;
       Whereas Meriwether Lewis, Captain of the First Regiment of 
     Infantry, and former Secretary to President Jefferson, was 
     appointed to lead the expedition, and he selected, with the 
     approval of the President, William Clark to serve equally as 
     a Captain in a leadership role;
       Whereas the Expedition returned to St. Louis, Missouri, on 
     September 23, 1806, after a 28-month journey covering 8,000 
     miles during which it traversed 11 future States: Illinois, 
     Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, 
     Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon; and
       Whereas the expedition was one of the most remarkable and 
     productive scientific and military exploratory expeditions in 
     all American history: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the House of Representatives directs the 
     National Park Service to form a committee for the purpose of 
     establishing guidelines to launch a national design 
     competition for the following project: In as much as Congress 
     desires to memorialize the Lewis and Clark Expedition and 
     because the City of Louis was the departing and returning 
     points of the Expedition as depicted by its Gateway to the 
     West Arch, therefore the City of St. Louis should display a 
     proper recognition of these great men in the form of a heroic 
     sculpture portraying the Expedition to be built in the Luther 
     Ely Smith Park in downtown St. Louis, which lies between the 
     Arch and the Old Courthouse, all now governed by the National 
     Park Service.
  The resolution was agreed to.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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