Title: Honoring the accomplishments and legacy of Arthur "Art" Simon.
Policy area: Social Welfare

Summary:
This resolution honors the life, accomplishments, and legacy of Arthur Simon (founder of the advocacy organization Bread for the World, which seeks to end global hunger).

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 378 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 378

    Honoring the accomplishments and legacy of Arthur ``Art'' Simon.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 14, 2019

    Mrs. Bustos (for herself and Mr. Bost) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in 
   addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                               RESOLUTION


 
    Honoring the accomplishments and legacy of Arthur ``Art'' Simon.

Whereas Arthur Simon was born on July 28, 1930, in Eugene, Oregon;
Whereas Arthur Simon helped his father with his monthly magazine, The Christian 
        Parent;
Whereas Arthur Simon graduated from Dana College, where he fought for 
        scholarships for minority populations as student body president;
Whereas Arthur Simon was ordained as a Lutheran minister after attending 
        Concordia Seminary;
Whereas Arthur Simon pastored Trinity Lutheran Church on New York City's Lower 
        East Side from 1961 to 1972, where he worked with community 
        organizations to fight for better living conditions;
Whereas, in 1973, Arthur Simon wrote ``The Politics of World Hunger'' with his 
        brother, the late Senator Paul Simon;
Whereas Arthur Simon wrote ``Bread for the World'', for which he won the 
        national Religious Book Award;
Whereas Arthur Simon founded the anti-hunger advocacy organization, Bread for 
        the World, one of the world's foremost grassroots organizations leading 
        the charge to end hunger and poverty around the globe;
Whereas Arthur Simon led the resolution entitled ``The Right to Food'', which 
        established the worldwide right to food as a cornerstone of United 
        States policy;
Whereas, from 1992 to 1997, Arthur Simon directed the Washington Office of the 
        Christian Children's Fund;
Whereas Arthur Simon worked on the Jubilee Debt Campaign, which led to the 
        passing of legislation that included $435,000,000 toward debt relief for 
        the world's poorest nations;
Whereas, in 2004, Arthur Simon was the 35th recipient of the ``Pacem in Terris 
        Peace and Freedom Award'';
Whereas Arthur Simon won the ``Presidential Hunger Award for Lifetime 
        Achievement'';
Whereas Arthur Simon won the ``Leadership Award'' of the Center for Public 
        Justice; and
Whereas Desmond Tutu said of Arthur Simon's Bread for the World, ``We in Africa 
        have many friends in the United States. Many of our brothers and sisters 
        of faith understand that Christianity is political or it's not 
        Christianity. Bread for the World is such a friend.'': Now, therefore, 
        be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) honors the life, accomplishments, and legacy of Arthur 
        Simon;
            (2) celebrates the leadership and commitment of Arthur 
        Simon to ending hunger in the United States and around the 
        world;
            (3) commends the achievements of Arthur Simon in founding 
        and growing a small group of people who wanted to study what 
        they could do to solve hunger and care for those whom Jesus 
        calls ``the least of these'', into the collective Christian 
        voice, Bread for the World; and
            (4) strongly supports the goal of ending hunger at home and 
        abroad.
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