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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 485 

Honoring the life of First Lady Barbara Bush. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 25, 2018 

Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Mr. CRUZ, Mr. MCCONNELL, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. 

ALEXANDER, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. BENNET, Mr. 

BLUMENTHAL, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. BROWN, 

Mr. BURR, Ms. CANTWELL, Mrs. CAPITO, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. CARPER, Mr. 

CASEY, Mr. CASSIDY, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. COONS, Mr. CORKER, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, Mr. COTTON, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. DAINES, Mr. DONNELLY, Ms. 

DUCKWORTH, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. ENZI, Mrs. ERNST, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, 

Mrs. FISCHER, Mr. FLAKE, Mr. GARDNER, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. GRASSLEY, Ms. HARRIS, Ms. HASSAN, Mr. HATCH, Mr. HEINRICH, Ms. HEITKAMP, Mr. HELLER, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. HOEVEN, Mrs. 

HYDE-SMITH, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. ISAKSON, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. JONES, Mr. 

KAINE, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. KING, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. LANKFORD, Mr. 

LEAHY, Mr. LEE, Mr. MANCHIN, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. MCCAIN, Mrs. 

MCCASKILL, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. MERKLEY, Mr. MORAN, Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. MURPHY, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. NELSON, Mr. PAUL, Mr. 

PERDUE, Mr. PETERS, Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. REED, Mr. RISCH, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. ROUNDS, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. SASSE, Mr. SCHATZ, 

Mr. SCOTT, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. SHELBY, Ms. SMITH, Ms. STABENOW, 

Mr. SULLIVAN, Mr. TESTER, Mr. THUNE, Mr. TILLIS, Mr. TOOMEY, Mr. 

UDALL, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. WARNER, Ms. WARREN, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. WICKER, Mr. WYDEN, and Mr. YOUNG) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Honoring the life of First Lady Barbara Bush. 

Whereas Barbara Pierce was born on June 8, 1925, in New 

York City; 


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Whereas Barbara Pierce became engaged to George Herbert 

Walker Bush and, while awaiting his return from combat 

during World War II, supported the war effort by working at a nuts and bolts factory in Port Chester, New 

York; 

Whereas Barbara Bush was married to President George 

H.W. Bush for 73 years, and together they had 2 daughters, 4 sons, 17 grandchildren, and 8 great-grandchildren; 

Whereas as Second Lady of the United States, Barbara Bush 

became a passionate champion for family literacy and 

published ‘‘C. Fred’s Story: A Dog’s Life’’, which raised 

$100,000 for Literacy Volunteers of America and 

Laubach Literacy Action; 

Whereas, in January of 1983, Barbara Bush joined the board 

of the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, 

and worked with Dr. Louis Sullivan to help raise $10 

million for the school’s first capital campaign; 

Whereas First Lady Barbara Bush founded the Barbara 

Bush Foundation for Family Literacy in 1989, and over 

the course of 30 years raised more than $110 million to 

support family literacy programs in every State across 

America; 

Whereas while serving as First Lady, Barbara Bush visited 

facilities for AIDS victims and held infected babies and 

hugged adults, and in so doing, helped erase the stigma 

of that disease; 

Whereas, in 1991, Barbara Bush and other advocates worked 

for the passage of the National Literacy Act of 1991, 

which created the National Institute for Literacy and 


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permitted the use of libraries and other municipal property as evening literacy centers for adults; 

Whereas after leaving the White House, Barbara Bush continued to support a broad range of important organizations and causes, including AmeriCares, the Mayo Clinic 

Foundation, the Leukemia Society of America, the Ronald McDonald House, and the Boys & Girls Club of 

America; 

Whereas three primary schools and two middle schools in 

Texas have been named for Barbara Bush, along with an 

elementary school in Mesa, Arizona, the Barbara Bush 

Library in Harris County, Texas, and the Barbara Bush 

Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center in Portland, 

Maine; 

Whereas Barbara Bush shares the rare distinction with Abigail Adams of being both a wife to, and mother of, a 

President of the United States, and is also the mother of 

a Governor of Florida and a Governor of Texas; and 

Whereas Barbara Bush was a truly great American, First 

and Second Lady of the United States, literacy advocate, 

author, mother, and ‘‘Ganny’’: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) extends its sympathies to the family of Bar3 bara Bush; and 

4 (2) honors the life of First Lady Barbara Bush 

5 and her contribution to the United States of Amer6 ica. 

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