| 22 | 4 | | HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION |
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| 23 | 5 | | WHEREAS, The famed Battleship Texas, which sits moored at the |
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| 24 | 6 | | San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site under the care of the |
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| 25 | 7 | | Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, is a national treasure that |
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| 26 | 8 | | played a prominent role in American successes in both World War I |
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| 27 | 9 | | and World War II; and |
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| 28 | 10 | | WHEREAS, The "Mighty T" was considered to be one of the most |
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| 29 | 11 | | powerful weapons in the world when it was commissioned on March 12, |
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| 30 | 12 | | 1914; the ship saw action off the North African coast near Morocco, |
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| 31 | 13 | | at Normandy on D-Day, and at Iwo Jima and Okinawa in the Pacific |
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| 32 | 14 | | Theater before being decommissioned on April 21, 1948; suffering |
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| 33 | 15 | | only one combat casualty in its many campaigns, the Texas earned the |
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| 34 | 16 | | nickname the "Lucky Ship"; and |
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| 35 | 17 | | WHEREAS, The Battleship Texas was a harbinger of America's |
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| 36 | 18 | | rise as an industrialized nation on the verge of becoming a world |
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| 37 | 19 | | power; in 1916, it became the first U.S. battleship to mount |
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| 38 | 20 | | antiaircraft guns as well as the first to employ directors and |
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| 39 | 21 | | range-keepers to control gunfire; other firsts followed, as the |
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| 40 | 22 | | Texas became the first U.S. battleship to launch an airplane, in |
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| 41 | 23 | | 1919, and the first navy ship to be fitted for commercial radar, in |
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| 42 | 24 | | 1939; and |
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| 43 | 25 | | WHEREAS, A National Historic Landmark and the flagship of the |
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| 44 | 26 | | Texas Navy, the Battleship Texas is a living memorial to the brave |
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| 45 | 27 | | men who served aboard it over the course of more than three decades; |
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| 46 | 28 | | even in repose, it continues to play an important role in the lives |
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| 47 | 29 | | of Texans and other Americans, and it is crucial that we preserve |
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| 48 | 30 | | this vital link to our nation's past; now, therefore, be it |
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| 49 | 31 | | RESOLVED, That the 84th Legislature of the State of Texas |
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| 50 | 32 | | hereby respectfully urge the Congress of the United States to |
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| 51 | 33 | | provide federal funding for repairs to the Battleship Texas; and, |
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| 52 | 34 | | be it further |
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| 53 | 35 | | RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official |
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| 54 | 36 | | copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to |
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| 55 | 37 | | the president of the Senate and speaker of the House of |
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| 56 | 38 | | Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all members |
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| 57 | 39 | | of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that this |
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| 58 | 40 | | resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a memorial to |
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| 59 | 41 | | the Congress of the United States of America. |
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| 42 | + | Peña |
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| 43 | + | Guillen |
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| 44 | + | Smith |
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| 45 | + | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 46 | + | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 47 | + | I certify that H.C.R. No. 80 was adopted by the House on April |
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| 48 | + | 30, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 1 present, not |
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| 49 | + | voting. |
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| 50 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 51 | + | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 52 | + | I certify that H.C.R. No. 80 was adopted by the Senate on May |
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| 53 | + | 22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
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| 54 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 55 | + | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 56 | + | APPROVED: __________________ |
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| 57 | + | Date |
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| 58 | + | __________________ |
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| 59 | + | Governor |
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