HCR245SEP30

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Week Ending September 30, 2005

H.CON.RES.245 Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States Supreme Court should speedily find the use of the Pledge of Allegiance in schools to be consistent with the Constitution of the United States.

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The Resolution urges the Supreme Court to find that using the reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in schools is consistent with the US Constitution. It is resolved that Congress recognizes the decision of other courts on the matter to include a split decision in the 4^th and 9^th US Courts of Appeal. The 4^th Circuit says pledging allegiance in school is Constitutional the 9^th does not agree.

The Resolution would expect that the Supreme Court find in favor of the importance and propriety of reciting the Pledge by school children.

Sponsor: Representative Darrell E. Issa (R-CA-49th)

Vote: Passed House 383 to 31 (RC 504) September 29, 2005

Cost to the taxpayers: No discernible cost

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Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States Supreme Court should speedily find the use of the Pledge of Allegiance in schools to be consistent with the Constitution of the United States.

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that--

(1) judicial rulings by the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th and 9th circuits have split on the issue of whether the Constitution allows the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in schools;

(2) the ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th circuit correctly finds the Constitution does allow such a recitation; and

(3) the United States Supreme Court should at the earliest opportunity resolve this conflict among the circuits in a manner which recognizes the importance and Constitutional propriety of the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance by school children.

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