PRINTER'S NO. 1391
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
96
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY ROTHMAN, RYAN, WHEATLEY, C. WILLIAMS, DELLOSO,
WEBSTER, E. NELSON, JAMES, BOBACK, SCHMITT, HILL-EVANS, HAMM,
POLINCHOCK, COOK, MIZGORSKI, GREINER, HOWARD, KNOWLES,
HICKERNELL, SAPPEY, DAVANZO, KAUFFMAN, SCHLEGEL CULVER,
PICKETT, FREEMAN, JOZWIAK, R. MACKENZIE, ROZZI, LONGIETTI,
SANCHEZ, PASHINSKI, STAATS, MENTZER, JONES, B. MILLER,
MILLARD, ROWE, NEILSON, O'MARA, BURNS, SAINATO, SAYLOR,
KEEFER, COX, DRISCOLL, MOUL, O'NEAL, INNAMORATO, GUENST,
BOROWICZ, SHUSTERMAN, HELM, HENNESSEY, ZABEL, HEFFLEY, KLUNK,
McNEILL, KINSEY, SAMUELSON, RAPP, OBERLANDER, STEPHENS,
METCALFE, MERCURI, STRUZZI, HERRIN, M. MACKENZIE, R. BROWN,
T. DAVIS, ARMANINI AND BERNSTINE, APRIL 27, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS, APRIL 27, 2021
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Urging the Secretary of the Navy to designate Philadelphia and
both banks of the Delaware River as the site of the main
celebration of the 250th birthdays of the United States Navy
and the United States Marine Corps in October and November
2025.
WHEREAS, The United States Navy was founded in Pennsylvania
on October 13, 1775, when the Second Continental Congress at
Independence Hall in Philadelphia authorized its first ships;
and
WHEREAS, Later that year, in Pennsylvania, the Continental
Navy commissioned its first ship and granted its first
commission to John Barry, the father of the American Navy; and
WHEREAS, The Second Continental Congress in Pennsylvania
commissioned Lieutenant John Paul Jones, who, on the Delaware,
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