[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 96 (Monday, June 10, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H4377-H4378]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 REQUESTING SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TO AUTHORIZE UNIQUE AND ONE-TIME 
 DISPLAYS ON THE NATIONAL MALL AND WASHINGTON MONUMENT BEGINNING JULY 
                   16, 2019 AND ENDING JULY 20, 2019

  Mr. SOTO. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Natural Resources be discharged from further consideration of the 
joint resolution (H.J. Res. 60) requesting the Secretary of the 
Interior

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to authorize unique and one-time arrangements for displays on the 
National Mall and the Washington Monument during the period beginning 
on July 16, 2019 and ending on July 20, 2019, and ask for its immediate 
consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the joint resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Florida?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the joint resolution is as follows:

                              H.J. Res. 60

       Whereas Congress enacted the Act of August 12, 1946 (60 
     Stat. 997; ch. 955, 1), to establish a National Air Museum, 
     later known as the Smithsonian's National Air and Space 
     Museum (NASM), to commemorate and memorialize the American 
     story of human flight in the atmosphere and in outer space;
       Whereas Congress enacted the Act of July 29, 1958 (commonly 
     known as the National Aeronautics and Space Act) (72 Stat. 
     426-438; 42 U.S.C. 2451 et seq.), to declare a policy of 
     peaceful space activities designed for the benefit of 
     humankind and to establish the National Aeronautics and Space 
     Administration (NASA);
       Whereas in July of 1960, NASA announced the creation of the 
     Apollo Program, the Nation's first orchestrated initiative to 
     ferry humankind out of Earth's orbit and to the Moon;
       Whereas on July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 Mission succeeded 
     in landing the spacecraft Eagle on the surface of the Moon, 
     piloted by two American astronauts, the first humans to ever 
     make landfall on another celestial body;
       Whereas on July 20 and 21, 1969, those brave Americans 
     became the first humans to set foot on the surface of the 
     Moon, forever changing Earth's relationship with the heavens;
       Whereas this momentous event was watched in wonder by 
     hundreds of millions of people back on Earth, including the 
     hundreds of thousands of NASA civilian and military staff and 
     partners who made the Apollo Program possible;
       Whereas the Apollo Program continued through December of 
     1972 and spurred the greatest development of human scientific 
     and technological understanding of any decade to that point, 
     leading to advances in rocketry, spaceflight, avionics, 
     telecommunications, and computers, on which the American 
     public still relies today;
       Whereas the National Air and Space Museum opened on the 
     American Bicentennial in July 1976 as a birthday gift to the 
     country in celebration of the Nation's highest achievements, 
     under the leadership and vision of Museum Director, NASA 
     astronaut, and Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael 
     Collins;
       Whereas NASA continues to pursue space exploration on 
     behalf of the American people to increase humankind's 
     understanding of the heavens; and
       Whereas the National Air and Space Museum continues to 
     memorialize the history of American discovery and invention, 
     and seeks to educate and inspire new generations of 
     innovators and explorers to ensure that our future 
     achievements in space are fully empowered by the achievements 
     of the past: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
     United States of America in Congress assembled, That 
     Congress--
       (1) requests the Secretary of the Interior to authorize 
     unique and one-time arrangements for the display of NASA and 
     Smithsonian artifacts, digital content, film footage, and 
     associated historic audio and imagery, in and around the 
     vicinity of the National Mall, including projected onto the 
     surface of the Washington Monument for five nights of public 
     display during the period beginning on July 16, 2019 and 
     ending on July 20, 2019; and
       (2) respectfully requests that the Clerk of the House of 
     Representatives transmit an enrolled copy of this resolution 
     to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Director 
     of the National Air and Space Museum.

  The joint resolution was ordered to be engrossed and read a third 
time, was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider 
was laid on the table.

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