HCONRES 232
105th Congress
House
Commemorations
Agriculture and Food
Anniversaries
Emigration
Europe
Famines
Government Operations and Politics
History
Immigrants
Immigration
International Affairs
Ireland
Irish Americans
Philately
Postage stamps
Potatoes
Expressing the sense of the Congress that a postage stamp should be issued to honor the 150th anniversary of the emigration of over 1,000,000 people from Ireland to the United States to escape the Irish Potato Famine, and to honor the contributions these immigrants and their descendants made to the United States.
Introduced: March 3, 1998
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 5, 1998
Referred to the Subcommittee on District of Columbia.
Mar 3, 1998
Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight.
Mar 3, 1998
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Calls for the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee to recommend and the Postmaster General to issue a postage stamp to honor: (1) the 150th anniversary of the emigration of more than one million people from Ireland to the United States to escape the Irish Potato Famine; and (2) the contributions of these immigrants and their descendants to the history, society, culture, and security of the United States.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on District of Columbia.
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