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110th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. RES. 269
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
July 12, 2007
Mr. Lautenberg (for himself, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Specter, Mr. Levin, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Obama, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Biden, Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. Dodd, Mrs. Boxer, and Ms. Landrieu) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee should recommend to the Postmaster General that a commemorative postage stamp be issued in honor of former United States Representative Barbara Jordan.
Whereas, in 1966, Barbara Jordan became the first African American since 1883 to serve in the Texas Senate, where she served with distinction until 1972;
Whereas Barbara Jordan became the first African American United States Representative from Texas when she won election to represent Texas’s 18th District in the United States House of Representatives in 1972;
Whereas, from 1979 to 1996, Barbara Jordan served as a distinguished professor at the University of Texas Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, where she also held the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy;
Whereas President Bill Clinton awarded Barbara Jordan the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation’s highest civilian honor, in August 1994; and
Whereas Barbara Jordan was a pioneer whose devotion to civil rights for all people in the United States resonates to this day: Now, therefore, be it
That it is the sense of the Senate that the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee should recommend to the Postmaster General that a commemorative postage stamp be issued in honor of former United States Representative Barbara Jordan.