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Thought you should know this:  In 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt urged nationwide observance of a Columbus Day, and in 1937, he proclaimed every October 12th as Columbus Day. In 1971, President Nixon declared it a federal public holiday on the 2nd Monday in October (today!).

Columbus Day, 2000


By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation by President Bush
 Click HERE

or to the Whitehouse site


 CLICK HERE for President Bush's speech on Columbus day 2001



RECENT: A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America on Columbus Day, 2000
To: National Desk, Contact: White House Press Office, 202-456-2580, WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released by the White House:
 
Bills and proclamations (search)
The way this works.  The bills are introduced by congress - the house and/or the senate (106th congress is current - for 1999 and 2000).  Then they vote to approve the bill.  Bills pertaining to Italian Americans are listed below.  They include Internment of Italian Americans during WWII, proclamations and senate/house approval to recognize October as "Italian American Heritage Month" on a Federal level and to recognize Italian (and others) as a language necessary to enhance world trade.

Use the search facility above to search for the HOUSE and SENATE bills below:

1999 (106th congress) A Bill resolved by the house to recognize (H Res 347) "Italian American Heritage Month" CLICK HERE for more info

Let's bug the senate to do their part to introduce the same bill as the house did above
Get in touch with your Senator now  - GO TO END for LIST.

1993/4 Resolved by the 103rd Congress - Senate (S J RES 113)  and House of Representatives (H J RES 175)   of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

 that October 1994 is designated as `Italian -American Heritage and Culture Month'. The President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe such month with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

 MORE bills with presidential proclamations...

Designating October 1991 as `Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month'. (Passed by the House)[H.J.RES.260.EH]
Designating October 1991 as `Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month'. (Introduced in the Senate)[S.J.RES.211.IS]
Designating October 1992 as `Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month'. (Passed by the House)[H.J.RES.400.EH]
Designating October 1992 as `Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month'. (Introduced in the Senate)[S.J.RES.306.IS]


Designating October 1989 as `Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month'. (Passed by the House) [H.J.RES.392.EH]
Designating October 1990 as `Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month'. (Passed by the Senate) [S.J.RES.349.ES]
Designating October 1989 as `Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month'. (Passed by the House) [H.J.RES.392.CPH


I went as far back as 1980 where the house and senate designated October 12 - 19, 1980 as "Italian-American Heritage week" Click here for the senate and/or the house of representatives bill details.

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Miscellaneous:

106th congress: Whereas knowledge of English, Spanish, French, Italian , Russian, German, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Vietnamese, African languages, Farsi, sign language, and the many other languages of the world, enhances competitiveness and tremendous growth in world trade; To express the sense of the Senate regarding English plus other languages. (Introduced in the Senate)[S.RES.106.IS]

WARTIME VIOLATIONS:
Wartime Violation of Italian American Civil Liberties Act (Introduced in the Senate)  [S.1909.IS]

Wartime Violation of Italian American Civil Liberties Act (Engrossed in House ) [H.R.2442.EH]

Wartime Violation of Italian American Civil Liberties Act (Referred in Senate) [H.R.2442.RFS]

To condemn the assassination of Judge Giovanni Falcone. (Passed by the Senate)[S.RES.308.ATS]

HERE is an interesting one:
1989 - Whereas Christopher Columbus is recognized as one of the greatest explorers in world history and the first to record the discovery of the Americas; (Introduced in the House)[H.J.RES.372.IH]

Another site with a lot of INFO - new yorkers will love it.

LINKS:

  1. Italian American Democratic Leadership Council
  2. Opensecrets.com - who gets the money from the above organization

  3. The Italian-American Political Coalition
  4. Rick Lazio - for US Senate race

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  5. National Italian-American Political Action Committee

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