IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
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Congratulating ASME on their 125th anniversary, celebrating the achieve-
ments of ASME members, and expressing the gratitude of the American 
people for ASME’s contributions. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 8, 2005
Mr. BOEHLERT (for himself, Mr. GORDON, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. AKIN, 
Mr. EHLERS, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. SCHWARZ of Michigan, Mr. BAIRD, and 
Mr. UDALL of Colorado) submitted the following concurrent resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Science 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Congratulating ASME on their 125th anniversary, cele-
brating the achievements of ASME members, and ex-
pressing the gratitude of the American people for 
ASME’s contributions.
Whereas in 2005, ASME, incorporated in 1880 as the Amer-
ican Society of Mechanical Engineers, celebrates its 
125th anniversary as one of the premier professional or-
ganizations focused on technical, educational, and re-
search issues of the engineering community; 
Whereas ASME plays a key role in protecting the welfare and 
safety of the public through the development and promul-
gation of over 600 codes and standards, including codes 
governing the manufacture of boilers, pressure vessels,
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elevators, escalators, petroleum and hazardous liquid 
pipelines, cranes, forklifts, power tools, screw threads and 
fasteners, and many other products routinely used by in-
dustry and people in the United States and around the 
world; 
Whereas ASME, through its 120,000 members, works dili-
gently to ensure the provision of quality science, tech-
nology, engineering, and mathematics education for 
young people as a way to foster and encourage the ad-
vancement of technology; 
Whereas industrial pioneers and ASME members such as 
Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and George Westinghouse 
helped to build ASME’s engineering society even as 
ASME was helping to build the economy of the United 
States; 
Whereas ASME members play a key role in ensuring access 
to affordable and reliable energy and natural resources; 
Whereas ASME members help to ensure the development and 
operation of quality and technologically advanced trans-
portation systems, including automobile, rail, and air 
travel; 
Whereas ASME members contribute to research and develop-
ment that identifies emerging and future technical needs 
in evolving and multidisciplinary areas; 
Whereas ASME continues to provide quality continuing edu-
cation programs designed to keep engineers at the cut-
ting edge of technology; and 
Whereas in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the 
United States of September 11, 2001, ASME members 
have intensified efforts to develop technologies for home-
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land security and the protection of the critical assets of 
this Nation: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress—
(1) congratulates ASME on its 125th anniver-
sary; 
(2) recognizes and celebrates the achievements 
of all ASME members; 
(3) expresses the gratitude of the people of the 
United States for ASME’s contributions to ensuring 
the health, safety, and economic well-being of the 
citizenry; and 
(4) directs the Clerk of the House of Represent-
atives to transmit an enrolled copy of this resolution 
to the president of ASME.
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