Bill Text: PA HR629 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Honoring sisters Ali and Jamie McMutrie for their heroic efforts in bringing 54 Haitian orphans back to the United States to be united with their adoptive families.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2010-05-26 - Adopted [HR629 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HR629-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3202
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 629 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY DEASY, McCALL, BELFANTI, BEYER, BISHOP, CALTAGIRONE, CLYMER, D. COSTA, DiGIROLAMO, DONATUCCI, EVERETT, GABLER, GEIST, GIBBONS, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GRUCELA, HARKINS, HELM, HENNESSEY, HESS, KORTZ, KOTIK, KULA, MAHONEY, MAJOR, MANDERINO, MANN, MARKOSEK, MARSHALL, McGEEHAN, MELIO, MILLARD, MURPHY, MUSTIO, O'NEILL, PALLONE, PARKER, PHILLIPS, READSHAW, REICHLEY, SANTONI, SCAVELLO, SEIP, SIPTROTH, M. SMITH, SONNEY, SWANGER, TALLMAN, THOMAS, VEREB, VULAKOVICH, WAGNER, WATERS, WATSON, BRADFORD, CREIGHTON, K. SMITH, DELOZIER, EACHUS AND WHITE, FEBRUARY 9, 2010
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, FEBRUARY 9, 2010
A RESOLUTION
Honoring sisters Ali and Jamie McMutrie for their heroic efforts
in bringing 54 Haitian orphans back to the United States to
be united with their adoptive families.
WHEREAS, Ali and Jamie McMutrie, from the Ben Avon suburb of
Pittsburgh, moved away to care for children at the BRESMA
orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, four years ago; and
WHEREAS, Following the devastating earthquake, the sisters
contacted family, and Internet support began to spread the word
of their desperate situation with the children; and
WHEREAS, Help arrived from Pennsylvania, as Governor Edward
Rendell, along with other leaders and doctors, brought the
orphans and the McMutries to Pittsburgh; and
WHEREAS, Their flight back from Haiti touched down at
Pittsburgh International Airport on January 19th; and
WHEREAS, Jamie McMutrie stayed behind to escort the final
orphan, a young girl, and both of them arrived in Pittsburgh on
January 20th; and
WHEREAS, The McMutries never gave up on even one of the
children in their extended Haitian family and deserve most of
the credit for accomplishing this seemingly impossible mission;
therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives honor Ali and
Jamie McMutrie for their heroic efforts in bringing 54 Haitian
orphans to the United States to be united with their adoptive
families; and be it further
RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be sent to Ali and
Jamie McMutrie.
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