Title: A resolution expressing support for the designation of the week of June 18 through June 22, 2018, as National GI Bill Commemoration Week.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Honors the achievements of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 in democratizing higher education and affirms Congress's responsibility to ensure that veterans educational assistance endures as an honorable investment of public dollars.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 551 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

<DOC>






115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 551

 Expressing support for the designation of the week of June 18 through 
         June 22, 2018, as National GI Bill Commemoration Week.


_______________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 19, 2018

  Mr. Carper (for himself, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Tester, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. 
 Tillis, and Mr. Nelson) submitted the following resolution; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

_______________________________________________________________________

                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing support for the designation of the week of June 18 through 
         June 22, 2018, as National GI Bill Commemoration Week.

Whereas, on June 22, 1944, in demonstration of the full support of the United 
        States for the transition of members of the Armed Forces to civilian 
        life, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Servicemen's 
        Readjustment Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 284), more commonly known as the 
        ``G.I. Bill of Rights'';
Whereas such Act made available to 16,000,000 veterans who served in the Armed 
        Forces during World War II immediate financial support and 
        transformational education and home loan programs;
Whereas such Act contributed 450,000 engineers, 240,000 accountants, 238,000 
        teachers, 91,000 scientists, 67,000 doctors, 122,000 dentists, 17,000 
        writers and editors, and thousands of other professionals to the 
        workforce of the United States;
Whereas this combination of opportunities changed the social and economic fabric 
        of the United States, with a 1988 report from the Subcommittee on 
        Education and Health of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress 
        concluding that for every $1 the United States invested in such Act, 
        $6.90 was returned in growth to the economy of the United States;
Whereas such Act expressed the duty, responsibility, and desire of a grateful 
        United States to see to it that those who served on active duty in the 
        Armed Forces are afforded every opportunity to become disciplined forces 
        for United States prosperity and progress, through economic opportunity 
        and investment;
Whereas Congress enacted subsequent Acts to provide educational assistance to 
        new generations of veterans, including the Veterans' Readjustment 
        Benefits Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-358), the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' 
        Educational Assistance Act of 1977 (Public Law 94-502), the Veterans' 
        Educational Assistance Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-525), and the Post-9/
        11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-252); and
Whereas the week of June 18 through June 22, 2018, is an appropriate week to 
        designate as ``National GI Bill Commemoration Week'': Now, therefore, be 
        it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) honors the achievements of the Servicemen's 
        Readjustment Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 284) in democratizing higher 
        education, establishing greater citizenship through economic 
        empowerment, and empowering a generation that would serve for 
        decades to guide the transformation of the United States into a 
        global force for good; and
            (2) affirms Congress' responsibility to be faithful 
        stewards of educational assistance provided under laws 
        administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure 
        that such assistance endures as an honorable investment of 
        public dollars.
                                 <all>