Amend HCR 50 as follows:                                                     
	(1) On page 1, before line 1, insert:                                          
	WHEREAS, Each Member of the Legislature feels great pride in 
being citizens of the United States of America, which includes the 
right of citizens to petition their government for redress of 
grievances; and,
	WHEREAS, All Texans have benefited from this State's 
participation in the unique experience in democracy that first 
began on a field in Lexington, Massachusetts, and called The United 
States of America; and
	WHEREAS, Countless Texans have served in the Armed Forces of 
the United States with the brave sons and daughters of all our 
sister States to protect our State, our Nation, our Union, and many 
of them gave the last full measure of devotion by offering their 
lives to preserve that Union; and
	WHEREAS, Each Member of the Legislature has sworn a solemn 
oath to defend our National Union; and
	WHEREAS, Each day, millions of Texans assemble in churches, 
synagogues, schools, arenas, fields, and homes to pledge allegiance 
to the Flag of the United States of America and the one nation, 
indivisible, for which that Flag stands; and
	(2) On page 2, lines 3, strike "congress" and substitute "the 
Congress of the United States".
	(3) On page 2, between lines 9 and 10, insert:                                 
	RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives, the Senate 
concurring, That the 81st Legislature of the State of Texas 
reaffirms the pride of all Texans in both our one and indivisible 
National Union and in our one and indivisible State and the common 
heritage of both; and, be it further
	(5) Strike the last resolving clause and substitute:                           
	RESOLVED, that the Chief Clerk of the House of 
Representatives is directed to send a copy of this Resolution to the 
Senators and Representatives of Texas in Congress with the request 
that this resolution be officially entered in the Congressional 
Record as a memorial to the Congress of the United States of 
America; and, be it further
	RESOLVED, That the Chief Clerk of the House of 
Representatives is directed to send a copy of this Resolution to the 
President of the United States of America, the Vice President of the 
United States of America, the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives of the United States of America, and to the 
governor of each sister State as an expression of the affection of 
the people of Texas for our one National and Indivisible Union.