Title: A resolution congratulating Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on 50 years of groundbreaking discoveries.
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Congratulates the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) on its semicentennial.
Wishes Fermilab success in continuing to help the people of the United States understand the mysteries of matter, energy, space, and time.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 169 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 169

  Congratulating Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on 50 years of 
                      groundbreaking discoveries.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 17, 2017

  Ms. Duckworth (for herself and Mr. Durbin) submitted the following 
 resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
                               Resources

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Congratulating Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on 50 years of 
                      groundbreaking discoveries.

Whereas, in 2017, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (referred to in this 
        preamble as ``Fermilab'') celebrates the 50th anniversary of the date on 
        which the first employees of Fermilab started work in Illinois, June 15, 
        1967;
Whereas Fermilab drives scientific discovery by building and operating world-
        leading particle accelerator and detector facilities, performing 
        pioneering research with national and global partners, and developing 
        new technologies for science that support the industrial competitiveness 
        of the United States;
Whereas Fermilab provides research facilities for 4,500 scientists from 50 
        countries;
Whereas research at Fermilab led to the discovery of the 3 building blocks of 
        the universe, the bottom quark in 1977, the top quark in 1995, and the 
        tau neutrino in 2000;
Whereas superconducting magnets developed at Fermilab led to the advancement of 
        magnetic resonance imaging medical diagnostics;
Whereas Fermilab contributed critical components, computing capabilities, and 
        scientific expertise to the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson in Geneva, 
        Switzerland;
Whereas Fermilab continues to lead scientific discoveries, including planning 
        construction for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility to power the Deep 
        Underground Neutrino Experiment; and
Whereas Fermilab demonstrates its strong commitment to developing a diverse 
        workforce for the future in the fields of science, technology, 
        engineering, and mathematics through educational programs that bring 
        more than 15,000 K-12 students to visit Fermilab each year: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) congratulates the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 
        on the semicentennial of the Laboratory; and
            (2) wishes the Laboratory success in continuing to help the 
        people of the United States understand the mysteries of matter, 
        energy, space, and time.
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