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MO SCR39

Concurrent Resolution

Status

Introduced

1/19/2010

Primary Sponsor

Kurt Schaefer

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Origin

Senate

2010 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Urges United States Congress to designate the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri as the National World War I Memorial by passing H.R. 1849 and S. 760

  • Liberty Memorial Association raised over $2.5 million in ten days in 1919 to honor World War I service members

  • Five supreme allied commanders from Belgium, Italy, France, Great Britain, and the United States dedicated the memorial site in Kansas City in 1921

  • Congress designated the Liberty Memorial museum as America's National World War I Museum in 2004, and the Secretary of the Interior declared it a National Historic Landmark in 2006

  • Instructs Missouri Senate Secretary to send inscribed copies of the resolution to the Secretary of the Interior and each member of Missouri's congressional delegation

Legislative Description

Urges Congress to designate the Liberty Memorial as the National World War I Memorial

Last Action

Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

1/20/2010

Committee Referrals

Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions & Ethics1/20/2010

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