IV 
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 reso-
lution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Account-
ability 
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 suc-
cessfully 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 Jan-
uary 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 Za-
pata Off-shore Co. pioneered in offshore drilling with op-
erations 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, Re-
publican Presidential nominee Ronald Reagan selected 
George H.W. Bush as his Vice Presidential nominee; 
Whereas George H.W. Bush assumed the role of Vice Presi-
dent in 1981; 
Whereas the Reagan-Bush administration was reelected for a 
second term in 1984; 
Whereas, in 1988, George H.W. Bush became the Presi-
dential 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, emanci-
pating 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 fol-
lowing 45 years of postwar division, and from Eastern 
Europe to the Baltic states to Latin America to the 
former Soviet republics, many liberal democracies sup-
planted 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 mar-
ket 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 Ku-
waiti 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 accomplish-
ments, eliminated the barriers to employment, public ac-
commodations, and transportation services for some 
43,000,000 citizens with disabilities; 
Whereas George Bush also signed the Clean Air Act Amend-
ments of 1990, which guided United States environ-
mental 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 Vir-
ginia 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’’ ini-
tiative 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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