House Bill hb9021

    Florida House of Representatives - 2002                HR 9021

        By Representative Fasano






  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution declaring February 6, 2002, as

  3         "Ronald Reagan Day" in the State of Florida.

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  5         WHEREAS, President Ronald Wilson Reagan, a man of

  6  humble background, worked throughout his life serving freedom

  7  and advancing the public good, having been employed as an

  8  entertainer, union leader, and corporate spokesman prior to

  9  his becoming Governor of California and then being elected to

10  two terms as the 40th President of the United States of

11  America, and

12         WHEREAS, while in office, President Ronald Reagan

13  served the nation with honor and distinction, as attested by

14  the confidence of an electorate that swept him into his second

15  term of office with an unprecedented 525 of the 538 electoral

16  votes and handed him a victory in 49 of the 50 States of the

17  Union, a record unsurpassed in the history of American

18  presidential elections, and

19         WHEREAS, in 1981, when Mr. Reagan was inaugurated

20  President, he inherited a nation stricken by inflation, but

21  his heroic bipartisan effort to restore accountability and

22  common sense to government led to an unprecedented economic

23  expansion and opportunity for millions of Americans, and

24         WHEREAS, in 1982, the nation was suffering from an

25  unemployment rate exceeding 10 percent, which, by June 1988,

26  had fallen to one of the lowest rates in modern United States

27  history, and

28         WHEREAS, President Reagan's push for an active social

29  policy lowered the nation's crime rate; his commitment to the

30  United States Armed Forces contributed to the restoration of

31  pride in America and laid the groundwork for victory in the

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2002                HR 9021

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  1  Gulf War; and his vision of "peace through strength" led to

  2  the end of the Cold War and the ultimate demise of the Soviet

  3  Union, guaranteeing basic human rights for millions of people,

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  5         WHEREAS, on February 6, 2002, President Ronald Wilson

  6  Reagan will have reached the age of 91 years, NOW, THEREFORE,

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  8  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

  9  Florida:

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11         That the House of Representatives considers it an honor

12  to pause in its deliberations to recognize the outstanding

13  contributions made to a grateful nation by America's 40th

14  President and to wholeheartedly designate February 6, 2002, as

15  "Ronald Reagan Day" in Florida.

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