PRINTER'S NO.  388

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

No.

70

Session of

2009

  

  

INTRODUCED BY WHEATLEY, BROWN, PAYTON, McGEEHAN, BELFANTI, BEYER, BISHOP, BOYD, BRENNAN, BUXTON, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, CONKLIN, P. COSTA, DALEY, DePASQUALE, DeWEESE, DiGIROLAMO, DONATUCCI, FLECK, FRANKEL, GEORGE, GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HARKINS, HARRIS, HELM, HESS, HORNAMAN, JOHNSON, JOSEPHS, W. KELLER, KIRKLAND, KORTZ, KULA, LEVDANSKY, LONGIETTI, MAJOR, MANN, MARKOSEK, McCALL, MELIO, MILLARD, MUNDY, PALLONE, PARKER, PRESTON, READSHAW, REED, ROEBUCK, SAINATO, SANTONI, SCAVELLO, SHAPIRO, K. SMITH, SOLOBAY, STURLA, THOMAS, WALKO, WANSACZ, WATSON, YOUNGBLOOD, YUDICHAK AND SIPTROTH, FEBRUARY 10, 2009

  

  

INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, FEBRUARY 10, 2009  

  

  

  

A RESOLUTION

  

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Honoring President Barack Obama, the first African-American

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President of the United States.

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WHEREAS, The Honorable Barack Obama of Illinois was elected

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the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008,

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with 365 electoral votes; and

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WHEREAS, Barack Obama is the first person to be elected

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President of the United States with African descent; and

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WHEREAS, With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas,

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President Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. He was

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raised with help from his grandfather, who served in Patton's

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Army, and his grandmother, who worked her way up from the

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secretarial pool to middle management at a bank; and

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WHEREAS, After working his way through college with the help

 


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of scholarships and student loans, President Obama moved to

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Chicago, where he worked with a group of churches to help

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rebuild communities; and

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WHEREAS, He went to Harvard Law School, where he became the

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first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Upon

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graduation, he returned to Chicago to teach constitutional law

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at the University of Chicago, and remained active in his

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community; and

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WHEREAS, The junior senator from the State of Illinois

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announced his candidacy for President almost two years ago,

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beginning his historic, barrier-busting bid for the nation's

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highest office; and

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WHEREAS, Forty-five years after Dr. Martin Luther King

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delivered his historic "I have a dream" speech, millions of

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United States citizens gathered on the National Mall on January

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20, 2009, and watched on television to witness the historic

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Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States, Barack

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Obama, the first African-American President of the United

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States; therefore be it

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RESOLVED, That the American people be commended for uniting

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to form a more perfect union in this historic election; and be

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it further

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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives honor President

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Barack Obama as the first African-American President of the

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United States.

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