[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S4540]
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SA 583. Ms. HIRONO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2018 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:
SEC. __. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING PACIFIC WAR MEMORIAL.
(a) Finding.--Congress recognizes that, as of the date of
the enactment of this Act, there is no memorial that
specifically honors the members of the Armed Forces of the
United States who served in the Pacific Theater of World War
II, also known as the Pacific War.
(b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that a
Pacific War memorial should be established at a suitable
location at or near the Pearl Harbor site of the World War II
Valor in the Pacific National Monument in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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