Bill Text: TX SCR46 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Directing the Texas Facilities Commission to rename the State Insurance Building in the Capitol Complex in honor of former president George H. W. Bush.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (N/A - Dead) 2017-04-04 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SCR46 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SCR46-Introduced.html
85R14520 BK-D | ||
By: Huffman | S.C.R. No. 46 |
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WHEREAS, George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of | ||
the United States, has served the American people with honor and | ||
distinction over the course of an exemplary career in public life; | ||
and | ||
WHEREAS, Born in Milton, Massachusetts, on June 12, 1924, to | ||
U.S. Senator Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush, George H. W. | ||
Bush hailed from a family with a proud tradition of government and | ||
business leadership; he attended Phillips Academy in Andover, and | ||
on his 18th birthday, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy; on earning his | ||
wings at the completion of flight school, he was among the youngest | ||
pilots serving in World War II, and he eventually flew a total of 58 | ||
combat missions in the war and earned the Distinguished Flying | ||
Cross for his bravery in action; and | ||
WHEREAS, George Bush attended Yale University, where he was a | ||
member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society; after graduating with a | ||
degree in economics in 1948, he found success working in the oil | ||
industry in West Texas; his entrance into politics came in 1963, | ||
when he was named chair of the Harris County Republican Party, and | ||
he was later elected to two terms in the U.S. Congress as a | ||
representative from Texas; highly respected by his peers in public | ||
service, he received appointments to a series of high-level | ||
positions, including ambassador to the United Nations, chair of the | ||
Republican National Committee, chief of the U.S. Liaison Office in | ||
China, and director of the Central Intelligence Agency; and | ||
WHEREAS, This accomplished leader was selected as Ronald | ||
Reagan's running mate during the 1980 presidential campaign, and in | ||
his role as vice president of the United States from 1981 to 1989, | ||
he focused on federal deregulation, antidrug programs, and other | ||
domestic policy areas; in 1988, he became the Republican nominee | ||
for president, and following his victory in the November election, | ||
he took office as the nation's chief executive; and | ||
WHEREAS, His presidency coincided with a time of many | ||
significant changes in the world, including the end of the Cold War, | ||
the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the fall of the Berlin | ||
Wall; noted for his skillful handling of foreign affairs, President | ||
Bush worked toward improved relations with Russia and oversaw the | ||
U.S. military's removal of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega; in | ||
response to the invasion of Kuwait directed by Iraqi president | ||
Saddam Hussein in 1990, he assembled an unprecedented coalition of | ||
32 nations to drive out the Iraqi forces, an action that is widely | ||
viewed as his greatest presidential achievement; and | ||
WHEREAS, During and after his time in office, President Bush | ||
has championed the cause of public and community service; in 2011, | ||
he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President | ||
Barack Obama in recognition of his efforts to inspire volunteerism | ||
in communities across the country, and Points of Light, the | ||
foundation that he established in 1990, continues to engage | ||
millions of people to become agents of positive change; in 2005, he | ||
joined forces with former president Bill Clinton to lead a | ||
fund-raiser for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and the | ||
initiative collected more than $100 million in donations in a | ||
matter of months; and | ||
WHEREAS, By his side in all his endeavors has been his wife, | ||
Barbara Bush, whom he married in 1945; the couple are the parents of | ||
six children, and they have proudly supported the political careers | ||
of their sons George W. Bush, who served as the 43rd president of | ||
the United States from 2001 to 2009, and Jeb Bush, who was governor | ||
of Florida from 1999 to 2007, as well as that of their grandson | ||
George P. Bush, who was elected Texas land commissioner in 2014; and | ||
WHEREAS, In President George H. W. Bush's own words, "Any | ||
definition of a successful life must include serving others," and | ||
this esteemed statesman has exemplified this ideal through his | ||
myriad contributions in the public realm; his patriotism and | ||
principled leadership have made him a revered figure in his adopted | ||
home state, and the renaming of the State Insurance Building in the | ||
Capitol Complex would indeed provide a fitting tribute to his | ||
legacy; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
hereby direct the Texas Facilities Commission to rename the State | ||
Insurance Building in the Capitol Complex as the George H. W. Bush | ||
State Office Building in honor of former president George H. W. Bush | ||
and his steadfast commitment to our state and nation; and, be it | ||
further | ||
RESOLVED, That the secretary of state forward an official | ||
copy of this resolution to the chair and to the executive director | ||
of the Texas Facilities Commission. |