Mount Rushmore Protection Act

Bill: 116-hr-7358
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Johnson, Dusty [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2020-06-25
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Monuments and memorials

Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

South Dakota

U.S. history
Latest action: action_date: 2020-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-06-25
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Mount Rushmore Protection Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the use of any federal funds to alter, change, destroy, or remove any name, face, or other feature on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7358 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 25, 2020 Mr. Johnson of South Dakota (for himself, Mrs. Hartzler , Mr. Fulcher , Mr. Conaway , Mr. Walberg , Mr. Hagedorn , Mr. Chabot , Mr. Rouzer , Mr. Bergman , Mr. Keller , Mr. Wilson of South Carolina , Mr. Crenshaw , Mr. Smucker , Mr. Davidson of Ohio , Mr. Johnson of Louisiana , and Mr. Meuser ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To provide that no Federal funds shall be used to alter, change, destroy, or remove, in whole or in part, any name, face, or other feature on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Mount Rushmore Protection Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Mount Rushmore National Memorial is America’s Shrine of Democracy. (2) The Mount Rushmore National Memorial depicts the faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, with the beauty of the Black Hills of South Dakota. 3. Prohibition on use of Federal funds No Federal funds shall be used to alter, change, destroy, or remove, in whole or in part, any name, face, or other feature on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.