Bill Text: OH HCR38 | 2009-2010 | 128th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: To memorialize the Congress of the United States to
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 10-5)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-25 - To State Government [HCR38 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2009-HCR38-Introduced.html
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Representative Bubp
Cosponsors:
Representatives Adams, R., Blessing, Chandler, Combs, Evans, Grossman, Harwood, Maag, Murray, Newcomb, Ruhl, Stebelton, Uecker, Yuko
To memorialize the Congress of the United States to | 1 |
retain the image of President Ulysses S. Grant on | 2 |
the fifty dollar bill and reject the proposal to | 3 |
redesign the fifty dollar bill. | 4 |
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF OHIO
(THE SENATE CONCURRING):
WHEREAS, Representative Patrick McHenry, a Republican | 5 |
congressman from North Carolina, has rallied thirteen members of | 6 |
the Congress of the United States to support a bill proposing the | 7 |
replacement of Ulysses S. Grant on the fifty dollar bill with | 8 |
Ronald Reagan; and | 9 |
WHEREAS, This bill, H.R. 4705 of the 111th Congress, is | 10 |
pending in the House Financial Services Committee; and | 11 |
WHEREAS, Ohio, and in particular Clermont and Brown counties, | 12 |
hold a special place in the history of our nation by having the | 13 |
distinct honor of being the birth place and childhood home of | 14 |
Ulysses S. Grant; and | 15 |
WHEREAS, The people of Ohio take great pride in the fact that | 16 |
the eighteenth President of the United States graces the fifty | 17 |
dollar bill and represents the strength and spirit of the American | 18 |
people; and | 19 |
WHEREAS, The decision to place Ulysses S. Grant on the fifty | 20 |
dollar bill was not a hasty or trivial decision, as Grant first | 21 |
appeared on the currency in 1914, nearly thirty years after his | 22 |
death and with a half-century of perspective on his Civil War | 23 |
achievements; and | 24 |
WHEREAS, The people of Ohio have not forgotten the legendary | 25 |
general who led the North to victory, became our nation's | 26 |
eighteenth president, and was a champion of civil rights; and | 27 |
WHEREAS, Without diminishing the accomplishments of President | 28 |
Ronald Reagan, the people of Ohio, in particular the residents of | 29 |
Clermont and Brown counties, firmly oppose any legislation that | 30 |
would replace President Grant on the fifty dollar bill and ask | 31 |
that others recognize Ulysses S. Grant as a beacon of the | 32 |
nineteenth century and as such, deserves to keep his position of | 33 |
prominence on America's currency; and | 34 |
WHEREAS, That the governments of Clermont and Brown counties | 35 |
have formally expressed their opposition to any legislation which | 36 |
would change the face of the fifty dollar bill; now therefore be | 37 |
it | 38 |
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the 128th General Assembly | 39 |
of the State of Ohio, call upon the Congress to reject H.R. 4705 | 40 |
and all efforts to replace President Grant on the fifty dollar | 41 |
bill; and be it further | 42 |
RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives | 43 |
transmit duly authenticated copies of this resolution to the | 44 |
Speaker and Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, | 45 |
the President Pro Tempore and Secretary of the United States | 46 |
Senate, the members of the Ohio congressional delegation, and the | 47 |
news media of Ohio. | 48 |