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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. CON. RES. 113 

Recognizing the life, achievements, and public service of former President 

George H.W. Bush on the occasion of his 100th birthday. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 12, 2024 

Mr. PFLUGER (for himself, Ms. GRANGER, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. ELLZEY, Mr. 

LUTTRELL, Mr. WILLIAMS of Texas, Mr. BABIN, Mr. FALLON, Mr. 

MCCAUL, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mrs. FLETCHER, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. 

MORAN, Mr. JACKSON of Texas, Ms. VAN DUYNE, Mr. GOODEN of Texas, 

Mr. BURGESS, Mr. SELF, Mr. ARRINGTON, Mr. BACON, Mrs. BICE, Mr. 

LAWLER, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. GRAVES of Missouri, Mr. DONALDS, Mr. 

GUTHRIE, and Mr. LATURNER) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 

Recognizing the life, achievements, and public service of 

former President George H.W. Bush on the occasion 

of his 100th birthday. 

Whereas, on June 12, 1924, George Herbert Walker Bush 

was born in Milton, Massachusetts; 

Whereas George H.W. Bush enlisted in the United States 

Navy as a naval aviator on his 18th birthday, eventually 

flying his first combat mission in May 1944, bombing 

Japanese-held Wake Island; 


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Whereas George H.W. Bush was awarded the Distinguished 

Flying Cross for his role in Chichi Jima where he successfully bailed from his aircraft and evaded capture; 

Whereas George H.W. Bush retired from the Navy having 

flown 58 active missions, completed 128 career landings, 

and recorded 1228 hours of flight time; 

Whereas George H.W. Bush enrolled at Yale College, where 

he graduated in two and a half years; 

Whereas, in college, George H.W. Bush captained the Yale 

baseball team and played in the first two College World 

Series; 

Whereas George H.W. Bush married Barbara Pierce on January 6, 1945; 

Whereas George H.W. Bush had six children, George W., 

Robin, Jeb, Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy; 

Whereas, in June 1948, the young Bush family moved to 

West Texas, where one of Mr. Bush’s companies, Zapata, 

eventually became the Pennzoil Corporation, while Zapata Off-shore Co. pioneered in offshore drilling with operations in the Gulf of Mexico, Brunei, Venezuela, the 

Sea of Japan, and the Persian Gulf; 

Whereas George H.W. Bush was elected as Chairman of the 

Harris County Republican Party in 1963; 

Whereas, in 1966, George H.W. Bush ran for the House of 

Representatives for Texas’ 7th Congressional District, 

and won; 

Whereas George H.W. Bush was appointed as the United 

States Ambassador to the United Nations in 1970; 

Whereas George H.W. Bush was appointed as the Chair of 

the Republican National Committee in 1972; 


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Whereas George H.W. Bush was confirmed as the Director 

of Central Intelligence in 1976; 

Whereas, at the 1980 Republican National Convention, Republican Presidential nominee Ronald Reagan selected 

George H.W. Bush as his Vice Presidential nominee; 

Whereas George H.W. Bush assumed the role of Vice President in 1981; 

Whereas the Reagan-Bush administration was reelected for a 

second term in 1984; 

Whereas, in 1988, George H.W. Bush became the Presidential nominee, with running mate Dan Quayle, Senator 

from Indiana; 

Whereas George H.W. Bush won the election with over 400 

electoral votes, which remains the most recent election in 

which a candidate won over 400 electoral votes; 

Whereas, during President Bush’s term in the Oval Office, a 

revolution of human liberty swept the globe, emancipating tens of millions of people and unleashing a series 

of transformative events; 

Whereas freedom prevailed in the Cold War as the Soviet 

Union imploded, the Berlin Wall ‘‘fell’’, and Germany 

united within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization following 45 years of postwar division, and from Eastern 

Europe to the Baltic states to Latin America to the 

former Soviet republics, many liberal democracies supplanted totalitarian regimes; 

Whereas President Bush worked with Soviet leader Mikhail 

Gorbachev and other key global figures to end the Cold 

War peacefully and usher in a new geopolitical era 

marked by political self-determination, the spread of market capitalism, and the opening of closed economies; 


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Whereas, in August 1990, after Iraqi troops under dictator 

Saddam Hussein invaded neighboring Kuwait, President 

Bush forged a coalition of 32 countries to restore Kuwaiti sovereignty and uphold international law; 

Whereas, despite being the first sitting Vice President elected 

to the Presidency since Martin van Buren in 1837, and 

only the second United States President elected to serve 

a full term without party control in either chamber of 

Congress, President Bush signed into law the Americans 

with Disabilities Act, which, among other accomplishments, eliminated the barriers to employment, public accommodations, and transportation services for some 

43,000,000 citizens with disabilities; 

Whereas George Bush also signed the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, which guided United States environmental policy for more than two decades; 

Whereas the education summit Mr. Bush hosted in 1989 with 

all 50 United States governors at the University of Virginia helped to spur a national reform movement, and the 

1990 budget agreement he signed codified into law real 

caps on discretionary spending by Congress while cutting 

the deficit by historic levels; 

Whereas President Bush launched his ‘‘Points of Light’’ initiative to promote volunteerism and community service 

across the United States, and during his term in office 

named 1,020 Daily Points of Light hailing from all 50 

States; 

Whereas the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and 

Museum was built in 1997 on the campus of Texas A&M 

University; 


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Whereas the Bush School of Government and Public Service 

was founded in 1997 on the campus of Texas A&M University; 

Whereas, after leaving the White House, President Bush 

chaired the Board of Visitors at the University of Texas 

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center from 2001 to 2003, and 

later with his wife, Barbara, Mr. Bush served as honorary cochair of C-Change, a collaborative group of key 

cancer leaders from the government, business, and nonprofit sectors who are committed to eliminate cancer as 

a major public health problem; 

Whereas, in 1997, the George Bush Intercontinental Airport 

in Houston was renamed in his honor; 

Whereas the USS George H.W. Bush, the tenth and final 

Nimitz-class supercarrier of the United States Navy, was 

commissioned in 2009; and 

Whereas, at the time of their passing in 2018, George H.W. 

and Barbara Bush had been married for 73 years and 

were survived by 5 children and their spouses, 17 grandchildren, and 8 great-grandchildren: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 

2 concurring), That Congress— 

3 (1) honors the life, achievements, and distin4 guished public service of George Herbert Walker 

5 Bush; 

6 (2) recognizes George Herbert Walker Bush on 

7 the occasion of his 100th birthday and expresses 

8 thanks and commendations to him and his family; 


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1 (3) acknowledges the positive impact George 

2 Herbert Walker Bush contributed to his country and 

3 the world through his decency and compassion; and 

4 (4) establishes the legacy of George Herbert 

5 Walker Bush as one of the great leaders and states6 men of the United States. 

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