[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 164 (Sunday, December 18, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H12291]
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                               AMENDMENTS

  Under clause 8 of rule XVIII, proposed amendments were submitted as 
follows:

                               H.R. 4510

                  Offered by Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas

       Amendment No. 1: Strike all after the enacting clause and 
     insert the following:

     SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

       Congress finds as follows:
       (1) Sojourner Truth was a towering figure among the 
     founders of the movement for women's suffrage in the United 
     States, and no monument that does not include her can 
     accurately represent this important development in our 
     Nation's history.
       (2) The statue known as the Portrait Monument, originally 
     presented to Congress in 1920 in honor of the passage of the 
     Nineteenth Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote and 
     presently exhibited in the rotunda of the Capitol, portrays 
     several early suffragists who were Sojourner Truth's 
     contemporaries but not Sojourner Truth herself, the only 
     African American among the group.

     SEC. 2. ACCEPTANCE AND DISPLAY OF BUST OF SOJOURNER TRUTH IN 
                   CAPITOL.

       (a) Acceptance of Donation of Bust.--Not later than 2 years 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Joint 
     Committee on the Library shall accept the donation of a bust 
     depicting Sojourner Truth, subject to such terms and 
     conditions as the Joint Committee considers appropriate.
       (b) Display.--The Joint Committee shall place the bust 
     accepted under subsection (a) in a suitable permanent 
     location in the Capitol.

       Amend the title so as to read: ``A Bill to direct the Joint 
     Committee on the Library to accept the donation of a bust 
     depicting Sojourner Truth and to display the bust in a 
     suitable location in the Capitol.''.