Mount Rushmore Protection Act

Bill: 117-hr-8734
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Johnson, Dusty [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2022-08-19
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Latest action: action_date: 2022-08-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-08-19
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 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8734 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 19, 2022 Mr. Johnson of South Dakota 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.