H.Res. 703

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 703 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 703

Expressing support for the designation of the week of September 11 
through September 17, 2025, as ``Patriot Week''.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

September 11, 2025

Mr. Moolenaar (for himself, Mr. Ryan, and Mr. James) submitted the 
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight 
and Government Reform

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RESOLUTION

Expressing support for the designation of the week of September 11 
through September 17, 2025, as ``Patriot Week''.

Whereas the events that led to the signing of the Constitution of the United 
States by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention on September 
17, 1787, have significance for every citizen of the United States and 
are honored in public schools across the United States on Constitution 
Day, which is September 17 of each year;
Whereas the rule of law, the social compact, democracy, liberty, equality, and 
unalienable human rights are the essential values upon which the United 
States flourishes;
Whereas diversity is one of the greatest strengths of the United States, and the 
motto inscribed on the Great Seal of the United States, ``E pluribus 
unum'', Latin for ``out of many, one'', symbolizes that individuals in 
the United States from all walks of life are unified by shared values;
Whereas exceptional, visionary, and indispensable individuals such as Thomas 
Paine, Patrick Henry, John Adams, John Marshall, George Washington, 
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, 
Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas 
Jefferson, and James Madison founded or advanced the United States;
Whereas the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, 
the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions signed in Seneca Falls, 
New York, the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 
``I Have a Dream'' speech delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr., express 
sentiments that have advanced liberty in the United States; and
Whereas the Bennington flag (commonly known as the ``'76 flag''), the Betsy Ross 
flag, the current flag of the United States, the flag of the women's 
suffrage movement, the Union flag (commonly known as the ``Fort Sumter 
flag''), the Gadsden flag, and the flags of the States are physical 
symbols of the history of the United States: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
(1) supports the designation of ``Patriot Week'';
(2) recognizes that understanding the history of the United 
States and the first principles of the United States is 
indispensable to the survival of the United States as a free 
people;
(3) acknowledges, in great reverence to the victims of the 
September 11, 2001, attacks, that citizens of the United States 
should take time to honor the first principles, founders, 
documents, and symbols of their history;
(4) recognizes that each generation should renew the spirit 
of the United States based on the first principles, historical 
figures, founding documents, and symbols of the United States; 
and
(5) 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, celebrating, and promoting the study of the history 
of the United States so that all people of the United States 
may offer the reverence that is due to the free republic.
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