Title: Expressing support for designation of the first week of December 2022 as National United States Miners Week.
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
This resolution supports the work of America's mining men and women and recognizes their importance in securing our domestic supply chains.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 855 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 855

 Expressing support for designation of the first week of December 2022 
                 as National United States Miners Week.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 14, 2021

  Mr. Stauber (for himself, Mr. Newhouse, Mr. Pfluger, Mr. Young, Mr. 
 Amodei, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Bost, Mr. Keller, 
  Mr. Meuser, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. Stewart, Ms. Herrell, Mr. Mooney, Mr. 
 Tiffany, Mrs. Fischbach, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, Mrs. Boebert, 
 Ms. Cheney, Mr. Emmer, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Norman, Mr. Fulcher, and Mr. 
Bucshon) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing support for designation of the first week of December 2022 
                 as National United States Miners Week.

Whereas December 6 was established by Congress in 2009 to honor the hard work 
        and commitment of miners in the United States;
Whereas America's mining men and women are foundational to modern economies and 
        are necessary for a high quality of life for all citizens;
Whereas the critical minerals, coal, and other raw materials harvested by 
        American miners out of domestic mines produce more than $82 billion in 
        raw materials annually;
Whereas the critical minerals, coal, and other raw materials unearthed by miners 
        are crucial to secure supply chains needed for steel, roads, houses, 
        cars, smartphones, ventilators, wind turbines, solar panels, and 
        everything else in our world that is not grown;
Whereas America's miners mine or support other industries in all 50 States;
Whereas there are more than 500,000 directly employed miners in America, 
        supporting another 1.8 million jobs in manufacturing, engineering, and 
        environmental sciences;
Whereas each miner in America indirectly supports an additional 3 jobs in 
        spinoff industries such as health care, hospitality, education, and 
        others, and are located in largely rural communities;
Whereas America's miners support billions in State and Federal royalty revenues, 
        funding education, child care, and diversifying economic development in 
        their communities; and
Whereas America would rely more on countries like Russia, China, the Democratic 
        Republic of the Congo, and others who rely on child and slave labor to 
        produce minerals needed for modern life if it weren't for American 
        miners: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) supports the work of America's mining men and women; 
        and
            (2) recognizes the importance of America's miners in 
        securing our domestic supply chains.
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