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[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 216 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 216

     Congratulating the Plastics Industry Association on its 80th 
                              anniversary.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 21, 2017

 Mr. Bucshon submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees 
on Science, Space, and Technology, and Education and the Workforce, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                               RESOLUTION

 
     Congratulating the Plastics Industry Association on its 80th 
                              anniversary.

Whereas the Plastics Industry Association is the leading association in the 
        United States that represents companies in the plastics industry;
Whereas the Plastics Industry Association was founded as the Society of the 
        Plastics Industry in 1937 in Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pennsylvania, as the 
        collective voice of a then-nascent plastics industry and has since 
        become the chief advocate for the entire plastics supply chain, 
        including plastics machinery manufacturers, plastics material suppliers, 
        plastics processors, moldmakers, recyclers, and consumer brand owners;
Whereas, today, the Plastics Industry Association represents the interests of an 
        industry that makes regular and vital contributions to the healthcare, 
        automotive, advanced manufacturing, transportation, aeronautics, 
        building and construction, telecommunications, recycling, packaging, and 
        consumer electronics sectors;
Whereas, over the course of the 80-year history of the Plastics Industry 
        Association, the association has--

    (1) advocated for the use of plastics; and

    (2) presided over the development of plastic from a low-cost 
replacement for metals, wood, glass, marble, shell, and other traditional 
materials to the sustainable material of choice because of its strength, 
light weight, recyclability, and design versatility;

Whereas the Plastics Industry Association hosts NPE: The Plastics Show, which is 
        the second largest trade show in the United States and attracts more 
        than 60,000 plastics professionals from more than 100 countries to the 
        United States every 3 years;
Whereas the Plastics Industry Association has hosted NPE: The Plastics Show in 
        the United States since the show was first founded in 1946 and the show 
        has served as a platform for growth and innovation in the plastics 
        industry of the United States for 70 years;
Whereas the Federal Government, through the War Production Board, recognized the 
        importance of plastics and the contributions of plastics to the war 
        effort during World War II, a conflict in which plastics played an 
        essential military role with respect to weaponry, aircraft, wire and 
        cable technology, medical devices, and troop supplies; and
Whereas the plastics industry generates $418,000,000,000 in revenue annually in 
        the United States and supports approximately 954,000 jobs: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) congratulates the Plastics Industry Association on its 
        80th anniversary;
            (2) reaffirms the crucial role that plastics have played 
        over the last 80 years and continue to play in strengthening 
        the economy of the United States and improving the everyday 
        lives of the people of the United States; and
            (3) recognizes the importance of continued investment in 
        plastics, manufacturing, research, and education in the fields 
        of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
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