Bill Text: PA HR67 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urging the Congress of the United States to designate a day each year in honor of the lifetime achievements of the late Roberto Clemente.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 38-13)

Status: (Passed) 2009-04-27 - Adopted [HR67 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HR67-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 395
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 67 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY CRUZ, KOTIK, YOUNGBLOOD, SABATINA, SANTONI, McCALL, McGEEHAN, KORTZ, SAINATO, ELLIS, DePASQUALE, WHEATLEY, BRENNAN, FRANKEL, BUXTON, J. TAYLOR, PAYNE, PYLE, HORNAMAN, SIPTROTH, MUSTIO, MILLARD, PASHINSKI, PALLONE, SCAVELLO, READSHAW, MARKOSEK, LEVDANSKY, BISHOP, HARHART, HARHAI, CONKLIN, GEORGE, WHITE, SWANGER, PAYTON, SAYLOR, GRUCELA, PHILLIPS, M. O'BRIEN, MELIO, KULA, KIRKLAND, K. SMITH, D. COSTA, DeLUCA AND RAPP, FEBRUARY 11, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS, FEBRUARY 11, 2009
A RESOLUTION
Urging the Congress of the United States to designate a day each
year in honor of the lifetime achievements of the late
Roberto Clemente.
WHEREAS, Roberto Clemente was born on August 18, 1934, in
Carolina, Puerto Rico; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Clemente played 18 seasons in Major League
Baseball (MLB) as a right fielder and right-handed batter from
1955 to 1972 with the Pittsburgh Pirates; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Clemente won the National League MLB Most
Valuable Player Award in 1966; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Clemente died in a plane crash on December 31,
1972, while en route to deliver humanitarian aid to earthquake
victims in Nicaragua; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Clemente was posthumously elected to the
National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973 as the first Latin
American to be selected and the only exception to the mandatory
five-year postretirement waiting period since it was instituted
in 1954; and
WHEREAS, In 1973, Mr. Clemente was posthumously awarded the
Congressional Gold Medal and in 2002, the Presidential Medal of
Freedom; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania urge the Congress of the United
States to designate a day each year in honor of the lifetime
achievements of the late Roberto Clemente.
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