[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 66 (Tuesday, April 24, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H3493]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              HONORING THE LIFE OF FIRST LADY BARBARA BUSH

  Mr. HURD. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on 
Oversight and Government Reform be discharged from further 
consideration of House Resolution 838, 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 Texas?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the resolution is as follows:

                              H. Res. 838

       Whereas Barbara Pierce was born on June 8, 1925, in New 
     York City;
       Whereas Barbara Pierce became engaged to George Herbert 
     Walker Bush and, while awaiting his return from combat during 
     World War II, supported the war effort by working at a nuts 
     and bolts factory in Port Chester, New York;
       Whereas Barbara Bush was married to President George H.W. 
     Bush for 73 years, and together they had 2 daughters, 4 sons, 
     17 grandchildren, and 8 great-grandchildren;
       Whereas as Second Lady of the United States, Barbara Bush 
     became a passionate champion for family literacy and 
     published ``C. Fred's Story: A Dog's Life'', which raised 
     $100,000 for Literacy Volunteers of America and Laubach 
     Literacy Action;
       Whereas, in January of 1983, Barbara Bush joined the board 
     of the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and 
     worked with Dr. Louis Sullivan to help raise $10 million for 
     the school's first capital campaign;
       Whereas First Lady Barbara Bush founded the Barbara Bush 
     Foundation for Family Literacy in 1989, and over the course 
     of 30 years raised more than $110 million to support family 
     literacy programs in every State across America;
       Whereas while serving as First Lady, Barbara Bush visited 
     facilities for AIDS victims and held infected babies and 
     hugged adults, and in so doing, helped erase the stigma of 
     that disease;
       Whereas, in 1991, Barbara Bush and other advocates worked 
     for the passage of the National Literacy Act of 1991, which 
     created the National Institute for Literacy and permitted the 
     use of libraries and other municipal property as evening 
     literacy centers for adults;
       Whereas after leaving the White House, Barbara Bush 
     continued to support a broad range of important organizations 
     and causes, including AmeriCares, the Mayo Clinic Foundation, 
     the Leukemia Society of America, the Ronald McDonald House, 
     and the Boys & Girls Club of America;
       Whereas three primary schools and two middle schools in 
     Texas have been named for Barbara Bush, along with an 
     elementary school in Mesa, Arizona, the Barbara Bush Library 
     in Harris County, Texas, and the Barbara Bush Children's 
     Hospital at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine;
       Whereas Barbara Bush shares the rare distinction with 
     Abigail Adams of being both a wife to, and mother of, a 
     President of the United States, and is also the mother of a 
     Governor of Florida and a Governor of Texas; and
       Whereas Barbara Bush was a truly great American, First and 
     Second Lady of the United States, literacy advocate, author, 
     mother, and ``Ganny'': Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
       (1) extends its sympathies to the family of Barbara Bush; 
     and
       (2) honors the life of First Lady Barbara Bush and her 
     contribution to the United States of America.

  The resolution was agreed to.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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