Sponsored by:
Senator JOSEPH M. KYRILLOS, JR.
District 13 (Monmouth)
Senator SANDRA B. CUNNINGHAM
District 31 (Hudson)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator Whelan
SYNOPSIS
Urges President and Congress to enact legislation designating National September 11 Memorial and Museum as national memorial.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
A Senate Resolution respectfully urging the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation designating the National September 11 Memorial and Museum as a national memorial.
Whereas, On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed in coordinated terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center site in New York, in rural Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon; and
Whereas, The attacks, also known as 9/11, caused the largest loss of life from a foreign attack on American soil, and the largest single loss of rescue personnel in American history; and
Whereas, The World Trade Center had previously been attacked, in a bombing incident that killed six people in 1993; and
Whereas, The National September 11 Memorial and Museum was created to honor and remember all of the individuals who tragically lost their lives in these two attacks; and
Whereas, The Memorial includes two reflecting pools featuring the largest manmade waterfalls in North America, both of which sit within the footprints of the Twin Towers, with the name of each person who died in the attacks inscribed into bronze panels; and
Whereas, The Museum contains multimedia displays, archives and a collection of monumental and authentic artifacts, telling the story of the attacks and their aftermath, to educate its visitors in the hope of building a better future; and
Whereas, H.R.3036 has been introduced in Congress to designate the National September 11 Memorial and Museum as a national memorial; and
Whereas, The impact of the attacks on September 11, 2001 and of the earlier bombing of the World Trade Center are profound and far-reaching on American citizens, akin to the effect of Pearl Harbor in 1941, and what happened in these attacks should never be forgotten; and
Whereas, It is altogether fitting and appropriate for this House to respectfully urge the President and Congress of the United States to enact H.R.3036, or other similar legislation, designating the National September 11 Memorial and Museum as a national memorial; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of New Jersey:
1. This House respectfully urges the president and Congress of the United States to enact H.R.3036, or other similar legislation, designating the National September 11 Memorial and Museum as a national memorial.
2. Copies of this resolution, as filed with the Secretary of State, shall be transmitted by the Secretary of the Senate to the President of the United States, the majority leader of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and each member of Congress from the State of New Jersey.
STATEMENT
This Senate Resolution urges the President and Congress of the United States to enact H.R.3036, or other similar legislation, designating the National September 11 Memorial and Museum as a national memorial.
The substantial loss of life and injury, as well as the ability of United States citizens to rebuild and continue living in the aftermath of the attacks on September 11, 2001, will forever mark that date in infamy as one of the worst foreign attacks on American soil in history.
The National September 11 Memorial and Museum was created to honor and remember the many lives that were lost on this day, as well as an earlier attack on the World Trade Center. Moreover, it was created to educate its visitors in the hope of building a better future. Congress and the President should designate this site as a national memorial, in recognition of the profound effect these events have had on so many people’s lives.