Resolution memorializing law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty

Whereas Federal, State, local, and Tribal police officers, sheriffs, and other law enforcement officers across the United States serve with valor, dignity, and integrity; Whereas law enforcement officers are charged with— (1) pursuing justice for all individuals; and (2) performing the duties of a law enforcement officer with fidelity to the constitutional and civil rights of the public the officers serve; Whereas law enforcement officers swear an oath to uphold the public trust even though, through the performance of the duties of a law enforcement officer, the officers may become targets for senseless acts of violence; Whereas, in 1962, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy signed Public Law 87–726 36 U.S.C. 136 Joint Resolution Peace Officers Memorial Day Whereas the Joint Resolution also authorizes the President to designate the week in which Peace Officers Memorial Day falls as National Police Week Whereas the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, dedicated on October 15, 1991, is the national monument to honor those law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty; and Whereas Peace Officers Memorial Day, 2023, honors the 556 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty and whose stories were recovered during 2022, including— (1) Michael Lynn Gillis; (2) Bradley S.H. Johnson; (3) Walter Raymond Hall; (4) Christopher Michael Vaughn; (5) J'Mar Colin Abel; (6) Michael Keith Morgan; (7) Steven Scott Bobbitt; (8) Mickey Jay Bowen; (9) Kevin Len Pounders; (10) Steven Ray Finley; (11) Jeremiah Lynch; (12) John T. Oaks; (13) Marquis Dewon Moorer; (14) John Graham; (15) Walter Lewis Johnson; (16) Darryl Wayne Fortner; (17) Curtis Matthew Worland; (18) Jesus Delaluz Lara III; (19) Jeremy M.B. Wilkins; (20) Phillip James Vavrinec, Jr.; (21) Thomas Crawford Craig; (22) Richard D.R. Lopez; (23) Joshua Daniel Caudell; (24) Jeffery Wayne Neel; (25) Matthew Chandler Moore; (26) Michael Ray Springer; (27) James Roy Morgan; (28) Paul Daniel Newell; (29) Gary Lynn Bean; (30) Ricky Allen Entmeier; (31) Gary Ray Kelley; (32) James S. Payne; (33) Jeremiah James Story; (34) William Joseph Shibley; (35) Donald Mark Scoby; (36) Richard Alan Bianchi, Jr.; (37) Michael Domingo Paredes; (38) Joseph Anthony Santana; (39) Tyler Ryan Lenehan; (40) Arthur Garcia Duron; (41) Toamalama W.L. Scanlan; (42) Nicholas Joseph Vella; (43) Fernando Uriel Arroyos; (44) Houston Ryan Tipping; (45) Christopher M. Bracks; (46) Andrew Lee Myers; (47) Anthony Nathan Bautista; (48) Armando Fernandez Meneses; (49) Pedro Romo; (50) Jamie John Arakawa; (51) Timothy David Tellez; (52) Amber Joy Leist; (53) John Mercer Black; (54) Morgan Wyatt Honeycutt; (55) Michael Edward Wall; (56) Robert Morrison; (57) Mono Jim; (58) Steven Michael Taylor; (59) Isaiah A. Cordero; (60) Jorge David Alvarado, Jr.; (61) Donald Archibald Mason; (62) Matthew Scott Gibbs; (63) Charles Morgan; (64) Dillon Micheal Vakoff; (65) James Miller Campbell; (66) Robert Eugene Sandoval; (67) Peter A. Walsh; (68) Frank Sam Potestio; (69) Andrew Steven Peery; (70) Marion Ernest Sanders; (71) Alex A. Hamzy; (72) Dustin William Demonte; (73) Diane Gonzalez; (74) Josip Peperni; (75) William Kinney; (76) Paul Matthew Patrick; (77) Christopher E.J. Taylor; (78) Adam James Webb; (79) James Michael McWhorter; (80) Jose Antonio Perez; (81) Kyle Lee Patterson; (82) James George Binnicker; (83) Edward Louis Perez; (84) Cesar Echaverry, Jr.; (85) Ray Charles Hamilton; (86) Shannon Mary Browning; (87) Ramon Caban, Jr.; (88) Clarence Guy Backherms; (89) Michael Robert Hartwick; (90) Christopher James Broadhead; (91) Blane Lee Lane; (92) Coby Brandon Seckinger; (93) Christopher Nicholas Fariello; (94) Walter C. Byrd; (95) James Walter Johnson; (96) Benjamin F. Wilder; (97) Fred Foster Crawford; (98) Jonathan Randall Koleski; (99) Marshall Samual Ervin, Jr.; (100) Terry Randall Arnold; (101) Jean-Harold Louis Astree; (102) Michael Scott Howard; (103) Shaneca C. Napier; (104) Addison Montanez Ford, Sr.; (105) Patrick Donnell Dupree; (106) Talmadge Leon Tucker, Jr.; (107) Scott Ozburn Riner; (108) Sean Marcus Free; (109) Donald Richard Crooms; (110) Clifford David Barber; (111) Samuel Bentley Arnold; (112) Hughey Anderson Keller; (113) Henry Lee Nixon; (114) William Gibson; (115) Richard Lynn Tostenson; (116) Walter Donald Jenkins, Jr.; (117) Jamie Lynn Reynolds; (118) Ellsworth Arthur Teed; (119) Kenneth John Thurman, Sr.; (120) Brian Romel Shields; (121) Joseph Anthony Tripoli; (122) Jose M. Huerta; (123) James R. Svec; (124) Joseph Robert Tinoco; (125) Claude Earl Bowman; (126) Brian Joseph Norton; (127) Nicholas Joseph Kozak; (128) Nicholas Donald Weist; (129) John Venton Donaldson; (130) Brian Lee Sember; (131) Michael John Queeney; (132) Noah Cleon Rainey; (133) John Medley Whisman; (134) Noah Jacob Shahnavaz; (135) William James Cox; (136) Douglas Warren Sanford; (137) Gary Layne Weinke; (138) Seara Brooke Burton; (139) John Lawrence Grampovnik; (140) John Karl Williams; (141) Austin Wayne Richardson; (142) Henry Edward Graves; (143) James Lawrence Kent; (144) Michael Earl German; (145) David Leroy Ingle; (146) Stacy Annette Murrow; (147) Robert Price Craft; (148) Sidnee Taylor Carter; (149) Jody Wayne Cash; (150) Gregory Lloyd Means; (151) Oliver Junior Little; (152) William Edward Petry; (153) Dixon Allen Sasser; (154) David Michael Ragle; (155) Logan Kendal Medlock; (156) Travis Dean Hurley; (157) James Jerry Critchelow; (158) Jacob Russell Chaffins; (159) Ralph Harlow Frasure; (160) Mark Allen Pike; (161) Walter Lee Soileau, Jr.; (162) Trey Steven Copeland; (163) William Earl Collins, Jr.; (164) Nicholas Wayne Tullier; (165) Louis Harry Estay; (166) Harold C. Hillman; (167) Kenneth Charles Olander; (168) Gregory John Bednarek; (169) Glenn Raymond Hilliard; (170) Frederick Joseph Gibney; (171) Edward M. Day; (172) Lawrence J. Nagle; (173) Joseph Francis Eberlein; (174) William F. Ahern; (175) Peter Neary; (176) John J. Fitzgerald; (177) Charles Alexander Christie; (178) Jacob G. Eyssi; (179) Tamar Anoush Bucci; (180) Frederick Louis Forni; (181) Loi Hu Ha; (182) Kevin Kelly Kokinis; (183) Nichole Marie Shuff-Balint; (184) Edgar A. Cranston; (185) Freddie Lee Wilson; (186) Lloyd Michael Todd; (187) Loren Michael Courts; (188) Raymond Darnell Hughes; (189) Kahlil Jacquen Biddle; (190) George Jason Kemp; (191) Collin Brevik Birnie; (192) Theodore Radlinski; (193) George Arthur Ferris; (194) Todd Lawrence Leveille; (195) Anthony Wayne Martin; (196) Franklin Pierce Boice; (197) Amos Forbes; (198) James Allan Lear; (199) Ernest M. Robinson; (200) John Joseph Wojciechowski; (201) Lee Eric Smith; (202) Jayme Lee Williams; (203) Joseph Budde; (204) Steven Michael Robin; (205) Branden Paul Estorffe; (206) Marzell Jerome Brooks; (207) Myiesha Breanna Stewart; (208) Lee Dan Vance, Jr.; (209) Robert Edward Moak, Sr.; (210) Kennis Winston Croom; (211) Jeffrey Ray Turner; (212) Johnny Raymond Patterson; (213) David Paul Jones; (214) Lane Anthony Burns; (215) Donald Eugene Riffe, Jr.; (216) Benjamin Lee Cooper; (217) Jake Alexander Reed; (218) Robert Boone Harris; (219) Janell L. Visser; (220) John David Luck; (221) Daniel Francisco Vasquez; (222) Justin Lee Smith; (223) Troy Todd Bailey; (224) Jeffrey Lee Hermanson; (225) Truong Thanh Thai; (226) Justin Michael Terry; (227) Edward Aaron Contreras, Jr.; (228) Douglas Michael King; (229) Philip Carl Closi; (230) Gerald Raymond Smith; (231) Ray Edward East; (232) Frank John Dustin; (233) Henry McAllister; (234) William Hurley; (235) Robert M. Miller; (236) Matthew Adam Vogel; (237) Frank W. Drewes, Jr.; (238) Harold Seaman; (239) William Dietz; (240) Julius H. Froh; (241) Robert Joseph Cookson; (242) Patrick McLaughlin; (243) Joseph William Goertz; (244) Joseph Charles Capriotti; (245) Robert F. McCormack; (246) Daniel Richard Krupa; (247) Brian Keith McAdams, Sr.; (248) Tolbert A. Furr; (249) Matthew Scott Horton; (250) David Formeza; (251) Frederick Gerald Maley; (252) Lawrence George Koren; (253) Fred Douglas Beers III; (254) Michael Adam Levison; (255) Charles Bryan Vannatta; (256) Aniceto Montoya; (257) Ananias Green; (258) Thomas Dean Vitale; (259) Robert Eric Duran; (260) Hector M. Nunez; (261) Charles C. Vroom IV; (262) Matthew A. Perlungher; (263) Robert D. Negri, Jr.; (264) David A. Mathura; (265) Leonard J. Swanson; (266) Wilbert D. Mora; (267) Jason Rivera; (268) Daniel Sanchez; (269) Barbara Burnette; (270) Terence P. Mulvey; (271) Enrico Joseph Crisafi; (272) Lawrence J. Prehn; (273) Neil Eugene Porter; (274) Michael John Reass; (275) Hugh P. Bartlett, Jr.; (276) Christopher Michael Tully; (277) George C. Moreno; (278) Michael S. Fuller; (279) Cornelius Joseph Douglas; (280) Steven L. Rodriguez; (281) Hector M. Gonzalez, Jr.; (282) Nicholas Purpero; (283) Brian John Maleyl; (284) Carl R. Ludwig; (285) Mark Smith; (286) Jennifer S. Abramowitz; (287) Raphael Albert Lora; (288) Edward R. Gorczynski, Jr.; (289) Dennis John Howard; (290) Gerald T. Brennan; (291) Emanuele Alongi; (292) Laurence Joseph Dougherty; (293) Jewel Jenkins; (294) Thomas L. Neal; (295) Emilio Laboy; (296) Patrick G. Monroe; (297) Michael A. Houlahan; (298) Pedro Garcia; (299) Robert P. Young; (300) Matthew S. von Seydewitz; (301) James P. Bast; (302) Frank Rosado; (303) Vincent A. Demarino; (304) Robert J. Reidy; (305) Anthony L. Lombardo; (306) John Minchilli; (307) Dennis Patrick Murphy; (308) Jeremiah J. Hunt; (309) Raymond Harris; (310) Thomas J. Fennessy; (311) Andrea R.J. Rainer; (312) Vincent Kevin Gough; (313) Valerie Kay Jacobs; (314) William Soto; (315) Carmen M. Figueroa; (316) Lawrence Edward Cabana; (317) Paul C. Adam; (318) Thomas J. Graham Jr.; (319) Ivan M. Morales; (320) F. Brent Chomyszak; (321) Rodrick Charles Covington; (322) Joseph James Gallagher; (323) Scott P. Enser; (324) James Gerard Sweeney; (325) Michael R. O’Donnell; (326) Joseph J. Mecca, Jr.; (327) William John DeBlock; (328) Wayne E. Bennett; (329) Kristina Marie Zell; (330) Melissa May France; (331) Anthony Patrick Mazurkiewicz; (332) Frank Daniel Gualdino; (333) William J. Kearns; (334) Ralph Chandler Kennerly; (335) Oscar Yovani Bolanos-Anavisca, Jr.; (336) William C. Callihan; (337) Gregory Thomas Horne, Sr.; (338) Matthew Eric Dow; (339) Michael Walter Godwin; (340) Helen Mae Smith; (341) James Brent Montgomery; (342) John Sumter Horton; (343) Ned Patrick Byrd; (344) José Angel DeLeon; (345) Matthew Ryan Fishman; (346) Reginald Kamal Smith; (347) Kenneth Clarence Jones; (348) Edward Lee Stewart; (349) Dominic Mario Francis; (350) Robert Craig Mills; (351) Matthew Eugene Yates; (352) Troy E. Sine; (353) Clement Leroy Francis; (354) Emerson A. Glotfelter; (355) Vinton E. Harsh; (356) Edward M. Hennessey; (357) Lawrence Robert Graham; (358) Sean Eric Vandenberg; (359) John Dale Stayrook; (360) Scott Russell Dawley; (361) Herbert Minshull; (362) Daniel Joseph Kin; (363) Christopher James Nelson; (364) Bart Lane Arnold; (365) William Daniel Kelley; (366) Frank Rodriguez, Jr.; (367) Robert Blaine Swartz; (368) James Arlie Hayes; (369) Lewis Wayne Roller; (370) William Riley Hargraves; (371) Scott Brandon Owens; (372) Richard Leslie Stephens; (373) Brian John Gaunt; (374) John Zoller; (375) Rhonda Jean Russell; (376) Gary R. Taccone; (377) Kevin D. Redding; (378) William David Lebo; (379) Steven H. Armbruster; (380) Charles G. Stipetich; (381) Branden Tyler Sisca; (382) Martin Francis Mack III; (383) Deborah Simpson-Rosario; (384) Vladimir Nikolaev Maleev; (385) Erin Lawrence Tokley; (386) Conklin Snow; (387) Charles Aloysius Prendergast; (388) Vasco Snow; (389) William Linder; (390) John Batts; (391) Timothy Earl Werner; (392) Richard Charles Howe; (393) Brian L. Rowland; (394) Scott Michael Patton; (395) Stephen Charles Plum, Jr.; (396) Chad Michael Beattie; (397) George B. Knapp; (398) Joshua P. Micun; (399) Christopher M. Mortensen; (400) Gino Caputo; (401) Roy Andrew Barr, Jr.; (402) Arthur Porcher Gaillard; (403) Tyrell Antwan Owens-Riley; (404) John Stewart; (405) Austin Derek Aldridge; (406) John William Berry III; (407) Tommy Wayne Cudd; (408) Braxton Michael Hofman; (409) David Hamilton Henry; (410) Daniel Todd Wallace; (411) Frank Keith Rezac, Jr.; (412) Jeffrey Herndon Carson; (413) Dale Leroy Wyman; (414) Matthew Stephen Locke; (415) Kevin Jay Stolinsky; (416) Christopher Allen Jenkins; (417) Terry Wayne Stowe; (418) Matthew Walker Blansett; (419) Bradley Alan Miller; (420) Corille Cortez Jones; (421) Richard Lee Barnes; (422) Robert Frank Clayton; (423) Cecil Earl Nunley; (424) Bridgette Lachelle Hunter; (425) Harold Lee Russell II; (426) Vince Arnold Mullins; (427) Gregory Lynn Triplett; (428) Mike Eladio Sanchez, Jr.; (429) Raquel Virginia Saunders; (430) Michael David Dunn; (431) Anthony Dupree Martin; (432) George Frederick; (433) James A. Gaines; (434) Matthew Adam Jimenez; (435) Ronald Rudy Butler; (436) Steven Robert Nothem II; (437) Joseph Francis Quillen, Jr.; (438) W.B. Hardeman; (439) Carlos David Ortiz; (440) John Jefferson Allen; (441) Chris Allen Bardwell; (442) Jack Lee Guthrie, Jr.; (443) Tracy Joe Dotson; (444) Christopher Dwayne Gibson; (445) John Paul Mestas; (446) Lonnie Pulvinar Sneed; (447) Barbara Ann Majors Fenley; (448) Schuyler Colfax Houston; (449) Gerardo Morales; (450) Julio Cesar Martinez; (451) Robert Carlos Ynclan; (452) Burke Nicholas Hannibal; (453) Brandon Paul Tsai; (454) Thomas Kristopher Hutchison; (455) Charles Eudell Galloway, Jr.; (456) Jennifer Lauren Chavis; (457) Robert Adam Howard; (458) Darren Almendarez; (459) Ramon Gutierrez, Jr.; (460) Manuel Phillipe De La Rosa; (461) Dustin Kyle Speckels; (462) Sean Sebastian Rios; (463) Elijah Pevito; (464) Laquintin J. Wilson; (465) Franklin Joe; (466) Lorin Marie Readmond; (467) Ricky Neal Roberts; (468) Wayne Butch Nowell, Jr; (469) Sheli Yvonne Godbold; (470) Manuel Christopher Widner; (471) Robert Rivera; (472) Earnest Frank Oldham; (473) Jeffery M.D. Richardson; (474) Jay Vincent Pena; (475) David Glen Evans; (476) Neil Pat Adams; (477) Ramiro Perez III; (478) Lorenzo Bustos; (479) Billy Wayne Scheets; (480) Kaitlyn Breanne Ritnour; (481) Jade Nicole Drennan; (482) Lonnie D. Johnson, Jr.; (483) Kay Weldon Zeger, Jr.; (484) John Baron Broadaway; (485) Darrell Avery; (486) Mark Allen Loecken; (487) Ty’isha Rhoshun Harper; (488) Kevin D. Dupree; (489) Maria A. Garcia; (490) Ruben Martinez, Sr.; (491) Jerry Esparza; (492) Anthony Carlos Salas; (493) J. Adam Ashworth; (494) Michael Dwayne Chandler; (495) John Elwood Painter; (496) Charles Wayne Catron; (497) Caleb Daniel Ogilvie; (498) Kenneth Paul Delano; (499) John Joseph Donohue; (500) Trey Marshall Sutton; (501) David William Myers, Jr.; (502) Jose Ramon Rivera; (503) David Jonathon Nieves; (504) John Gregory Blankenship; (505) Thomas J. Wray; (506) Jordan Taylor Jackson; (507) Daniel Charles Rocha; (508) Daryl Wayne Shuey; (509) Dominique Bernardo Calata; (510) Donald Lewis Sahota; (511) Darryl Lynn Goodrich, Jr.; (512) Max Lee Webb; (513) Mitchell K. Robinson; (514) John Agnew; (515) Pete Pescatore; (516) Claude Thomas Spangler; (517) George Mitchell; (518) William Johnson Tabor; (519) Burman H. Hatfield; (520) Hannibal Noah Blankenship; (521) Samuel Payne; (522) Thomas Edward Baker III; (523) Daniel Lynn Creighbaum; (524) Shawn Paul Hennessee; (525) Yiu Tak Tao; (526) Raymond John Gutierrez; (527) Randall J. Harris; (528) Jason T. Dumlao; (529) Charles M. Davis; (530) Eugene Smith; (531) Jason Dorian Nathan; (532) Jason Lynn Norton; (533) Brian Scott McElroy; (534) Raul Humberto Gonzalez, Jr.; (535) Daniel Humberto Salazar; (536) Michel Orlando Maceda; (537) Jorge Alain Arias; (538) Cody Alan Olafson; (539) Bruce Robert Eckhoff; (540) Brian Lee Vogel; (541) Jeffrey Paliza Dela Cruz; (542) Kenneth MacCallum; (543) William Clark Hayes; (544) David Eric Mize; (545) Brian Wayne Turner; (546) Rachel Elizabeth Vielmas; (547) James Dale Holdman, Jr.; (548) Peter Christopher Egan; (549) Jose Elizondo Gomez; (550) Michael Judson Riley; (551) Augustine McIntyre; (552) Henry Schubert; (553) George W. LaPorte; (554) Edward Patrick Savage; (555) William M. Williams, Sr.; and (556) Adrian Lopez, Sr.: Now, therefore, be it That the House of Representatives— (1) acknowledges that police officers and other law enforcement personnel, especially those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, should be remembered and honored; (2) expresses unwavering support for law enforcement officers across the United States in the 8 pursuit of preserving safe and secure communities; (3) recognizes the need to ensure that law enforcement officers have the equipment, training, and resources that are necessary in order to protect the health and safety of the officers while the officers protect the public; (4) recognizes the law enforcement community for continual unseen acts of sacrifice and heroism; and (5) expresses condolences and solemn appreciation to the loved ones of each law enforcement officer who has made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. Cheryl L. Johnson, Clerk.

Summary: This resolution expresses support for recognizing National Police Week. The resolution further recognizes law enforcement officers across the United States in the pursuit of preserving safe and secure communities; the need to ensure that such officers have the equipment, training, and resources necessary to protect their health and safety while they are protecting the public; and the law enforcement community for acts of sacrifice and heroism. The resolution expresses condolences and appreciation to the loved ones of each law enforcement officer who has made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.