Bill Text: AZ HCM2001 | 2014 | Fifty-first Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: POWs; MIAs; congressional committee
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-04-16 - Transmitted to Secretary Of State [HCM2001 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2014-HCM2001-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: POWs; MIAs; congressional committee |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-first Legislature Second Regular Session 2014
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HCM 2001 |
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Introduced by Representatives Borrelli, Boyer: Goodale, Senator Farnsworth
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A CONCURRENT MEMORIAL
urging the united states congress to establish a select committee on pow and mia affairs.
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To the Congress of the United States of America:
Your memorialist respectfully represents:
Whereas, it is a troubling fact that, over the past century, numerous American military personnel have been taken prisoner of war by enemy forces or have gone missing in action while in service to their country; and
Whereas, these men and women have diligently served the citizens of the United States through their efforts to provide for the safety, security and well-being of this state and nation. In so doing, they have sacrificed their time, dreams and often their own health or lives to preserve our liberties and freedom; and
Whereas, we owe a special debt of respect and gratitude to those who were captured and yet kept faith, even while being deprived of their freedom and possibly tortured, and to those whose fate remains unknown by their loved ones; and
Whereas, it is fitting and proper that the United States attempt to determine the fate of members of the American armed forces who were taken prisoner or who went missing from World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Cold War missions, the Persian Gulf War, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom; and
Whereas, a Select Committee on POW and MIA Affairs in the United States House of Representatives would be tasked with conducting a full investigation of all unresolved matters relating to any American personnel who are unaccounted for from these conflicts, including MIAs and POWs who are missing or were captured.
Wherefore your memorialist, the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the Senate concurring, prays:
1. That the Members of the United States Congress establish a Select Committee on POW and MIA Affairs in the United States House of Representatives.
2. That the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona transmit a copy of this Memorial to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona.
