I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6925 
To require the removal of any signage or other identification from the John 
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts that differs from the designa-
tion ‘‘John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’’, as designated 
under section 3 of the John F. Kennedy Center Act (20 U.S.C. 76i), 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 23, 2025 
Mrs. MCCLAIN DELANEY (for herself, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Mrs. 
HAYES, and Mrs. GRIJALVA) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To require the removal of any signage or other identification 
from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing 
Arts that differs from the designation ‘‘John F. Kennedy 
Center for the Performing Arts’’, as designated under 
section 3 of the John F. Kennedy Center Act (20 U.S.C. 
76i), and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Kennedy Center Pro-
tection Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Congress established the National Cultural 
Center in 1958 to present musical programs, lec-
tures, and other arts programs for youth and the el-
derly. 
(2) Our 35th President, John Fitzgerald Ken-
nedy was particularly devoted to the advancement of 
the performing arts within the United States. 
(3) Congress statutorily renamed the National 
Cultural Center the ‘‘John F. Kennedy Center for 
the Performing Arts’’ in 1964 following President 
Kennedy’s untimely death. 
(4) On February 7, 2025, President Trump an-
nounced his intention to terminate members of the 
Kennedy Center and appoint himself as chair, an 
unprecedented action. 
(5) On December 18, 2025, it was announced 
that the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy 
Center for the Performing Arts voted unanimously 
to rename the Center ‘‘The Donald J. Trump and 
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’’. 
(6) Congress itself established the Kennedy 
Center and its Board of Trustees, and such a vote 
of the Board is clearly beyond its statutory author-
ity. 
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(7) The renaming of any Federal building for 
a 
sitting 
President 
signals 
a 
slide 
towards 
authoritarianism. 
(8) Congress itself retains sole authority to re-
name the John F. Kennedy Center for the Per-
forming Arts through statute. 
SEC. 3. JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING 
ARTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The reported vote of the Trustees 
of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 
on December 18, 2025, renaming the Center as the ‘‘Don-
ald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Per-
forming Arts’’ is hereby void. 
(b) REMOVAL.—Not later than 1 day after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Trustees of the John F. Ken-
nedy Center for the Performing Arts shall remove any 
signage or other identification from the John F. Kennedy 
Center for the Performing Arts that differs from the des-
ignation ‘‘John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing 
Arts’’, as designated under section 3 of the John F. Ken-
nedy Center Act (20 U.S.C. 76i). 
(c) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg-
ulation, document, paper, publication, signage, or other 
record of the United States to the John F. Kennedy Cen-
ter for the Performing Arts changed after the vote de-
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scribed in subsection (a) shall return to the name ‘‘John 
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’’. 
(d) RESTRICTION ON BOARD AUTHORITY.—Section 
5 of the John F. Kennedy Center Act (20 U.S.C. 76k) 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(h) RESTRICTIONS ON BOARD AUTHORITY.—The 
Board may not undertake any vote or proposal or author-
ize any action to rename the John F. Kennedy Center for 
the Performing Arts.’’. 
(e) REPORTING ON FUNDS USED.—Not later than 30 
days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Trustees 
of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 
shall submit to Congress a report detailing any public or 
private funds used to install, alter, or implement the 
change in the name of the John F. Kennedy Center for 
the Performing Arts. 
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