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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.