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H.Con.Res. 12House115th Congress (2017-2019)In Committee

Supporting the designation of the week of September 11 to September 17 as "Patriot Week".

Sponsored by Mike BishopRep. Mike Bishop (R-MI)
Introduced January 24, 2017

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This concurrent resolution asks Congress to back a national “Patriot Week” that runs from September 11 to September 17. It links the week to the memory of the 9/11 attacks and to the founding principles, documents, and symbols of the United States, urging Americans to reflect on their history.

Key Provisions

  • Congress formally supports designating the week of September 11‑17 as “Patriot Week.”
  • The resolution states that each generation should renew the nation’s spirit by remembering its founding principles, historic figures, and key documents.
  • It encourages citizens, schools, and federal, state, and local governments to recognize and celebrate Patriot Week through educational and commemorative activities.

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Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

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January 24, 2017

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Introduced in House

January 24, 2017

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Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Oversight and Government Reform Committee

January 24, 2017

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What members said about H.Con.Res. 12 on the floor

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Mike Bishop
Rep. Mike BishopR-MI-8 · Sep 13, 2017

Mr. Speaker, today I rise about something near and dear to my heart. It is Patriot Week, which is going on this week. In 2009, while I served in the Michigan Senate, we became the first legislative…

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Mike Bishop
Rep. Mike BishopR-MI-8 · Jun 27, 2017

Mr. Speaker, we need to get back to the core values that our Nation embraced 241 years ago. That is why this year I have reintroduced my Patriot Week resolution, H. Con. Res. 12, which creates a…

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Introduced in HouseIssued January 24, 2017

IV

115th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. CON. RES. 12

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 24, 2017

Mr. Bishop of Michigan (for himself, Mr. Huizenga, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. Walberg, Mr. Trott, and Mr. Mitchell) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Supporting the designation of the week of September 11 to September 17 as Patriot Week.

Whereas Congress recognizes that understanding United States history and the Nation’s first principles are indispensable to the survival of our republic as a free people;

Whereas in great reverence to the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks, Congress acknowledges that United States citizens should take time to honor the first principles, founders, documents, and symbols of their history;

Whereas the events that led to the signing of the Constitution of the United States by the delegates of the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, have significance for every United States citizen and are honored in public schools across the Nation on September 17 of each year as Constitution Day;

Whereas the revolution, the rule of law, social compact, equality, unalienable rights, and limited government are the first principles upon which the Nation was founded and flourishes;

Whereas exceptional, visionary, and indispensable Americans such as Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, John Adams, John Marshall, George Washington, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison founded or advanced the United States;

Whereas the Declaration of Independence, Marbury v. Madison, the resolution of Congress of September 28, 1787, submitting the Constitution to the several States, the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, the I Have a Dream speech, the Bill of Rights, the original unamended Constitution, and the 9th and 10th amendments to the United States Constitution are key documents that embody the first principles and have advanced United States liberty; and

Whereas the Bennington (’76) Flag, the Betsy Ross Flag, the current United States Flag, the Suffragist Flag, the Union (Fort Sumter) Flag, the Gadsden Flag, and the flags of the several States are fundamental physical symbols of United States history and freedom that should be studied and remembered by each citizen: Now, therefore, be it

That Congress—

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supports the designation of Patriot Week;

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recognizes that each generation ought to renew the spirit of the Nation based on the first principles, historical figures, founding documents, and symbols of the United States; and

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encourages citizens, schools and other educational institutions, and Federal, State, and local governments and their agencies, to recognize and participate in Patriot Week by honoring and celebrating so that all may offer the reverence that is due to the free republic.