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Second Regular Session

Sixty-first General Assembly

LLS NO. R98­0796.01 EBD

STATE OF COLORADO

BY SENATORS Powers, Bishop, and Norton;

also REPRESENTATIVE Owen.

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 98-005

MEMORIALIZING THE PRESIDENT AND THE CONGRESS TO ENACT LEGISLATION TO RENAME THE WASHINGTON NATIONAL AIRPORT AS THE "RONALD REAGAN WASHINGTON NATIONAL AIRPORT".

WHEREAS, Legislation has been introduced in the United States House of Representatives (H.R. 2625) and the United States Senate (S. 1297) to rename the Washington National Airport as the "Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport"; and

WHEREAS, This federal legislation is intended to honor one of the greatest and most loved presidents of the United States; and

WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan left the United States and the world a legacy of prosperity and freedom; and

WHEREAS, Naming the gateway to the nation's capital after President Ronald Reagan is a fitting tribute to his contributions to our nation and to the world; and

WHEREAS, This dedication should be completed in honor of President Reagan's eighty­seventh birthday on February 6, 1998;

Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty­first General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives concurring herein:

That we, the members of the Colorado General Assembly, encourage the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation to rename the Washington National Airport as the "Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport".

Be it further resolved That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, the Vice­President of the United States, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and to each member of the Colorado delegation to the Congress of the United States.