[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H.R. 3320 Reported in Senate (RS)]
Calendar No. 739
110th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 3320
[Report No. 110-336]
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
November 15, 2007
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
May 19, 2008
Reported by Mr. Biden, with an amendment
[Omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic]
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AN ACT
To provide assistance for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in
Warsaw, Poland.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Support for the Museum of the
History of Polish Jews Act of 2007''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) Current and future generations benefit greatly by
visible reminders and documentation of the historical and
cultural roots of their society.
(2) It is in the national interest of the United States to
encourage the preservation and protection of artifacts
associated with the heritage of United States citizens who
trace their forbearers to other countries and to encourage the
collection and dissemination of knowledge about that heritage.
(3) According to the 2000 United States Census, nearly
9,000,000 Americans are of Polish ancestry.
(4) At the beginning of World War II, Poland had the
largest Jewish population in Europe.
(5) In 1996, Yeshayahu Weinberg, a founding director of Tel
Aviv's Diaspora Museum and the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum, created an international team of experts with the goal
of establishing a Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
(6) The Museum of the History of Polish Jews will preserve
and present the history of the Jewish people in Poland and the
wealth of their culture spanning a period of 1,000 years.
(7) In 1997, the City of Warsaw donated a parcel of land,
opposite the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Memorial, for the explicit
use for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
(8) In 2005, the Government of Poland and the City of
Warsaw agreed to provide 40,000,000 Polish zlotys for the
construction of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
(9) In 2005, an international architectural competition
selected a Finnish firm to design the building for the Museum
of the History of Polish Jews.
(10) In 2006, the building for the Museum of the History of
Polish Jews moved into the last phase of project design.
SEC. 3. ASSISTANCE FOR THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS.
<DELETED> (a) In General.--Assistance provided by the Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State shall be
made available to assist in the development of the permanent collection
of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (b) Authorization for Assistance.--To carry out the
purposes of subsection (a), the Secretary of State is authorized to
provide $5,000,000, which shall remain available until expended, to the
Museum for the History of Polish Jews.</DELETED>
(a) Authority.--The Secretary of State is authorized to provide not
more than $5,000,000 in assistance, on such terms and conditions as the
Secretary may specify, to fund the establishment of, and maintain the
permanent collection of, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
(b) Expiration.--The authority under subsection (a) shall expire on
October 1, 2010.
Calendar No. 739
110th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 3320
[Report No. 110-336]
_______________________________________________________________________
AN ACT
To provide assistance for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in
Warsaw, Poland.
_______________________________________________________________________
May 19, 2008
Reported with an amendment