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Week Ending September 7, 2007

H.CON.RES.181 Recognizing and commending all volunteers and other persons who provide support to the families and children of members of the Armed Forces, including National Guard and Reserve personnel, who are deployed in service to the United States.

One third of the 1.2 million children of members of the Armed Forces and Reserves are under the age of five. The preamble explains that due to family circumstances, the US is developing the New Social Compact and often the services available to those families are not near where they live.

Non-profits have sprung up to make sure those services are received. They included Our Military Kinds, Inc. Parents as Teachers, Citizen Soldier Support Program, Operation Homefront, Inc. American Military Families, Inc and Kids Serve 2.

The resolution commends the effort.

Sponsor:  Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-TX-27^th)

Vote: Agreed to by voice vote September 5, 2007

Cost to the taxpayers: No discernible cost.

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Whereas there are 1.2 million children who are the sons or daughters of members of the Armed Forces, including more than 153,000 children of members of reserve components, and more than one third of these children are under the age of five;

Whereas the families of members of the Armed Forces, and in particular their children, provide unconditional love and support to their loved ones serving in the Armed Forces before, during, and after their deployment;

Whereas the Department of Defense recognizes that the family of a deployed member of the Armed Forces also serves and has made a commitment to military families by establishing goals for a New Social Compact with members of the Armed Forces and their families;

Whereas the Government makes significant resources available to families and children of members of the Armed Forces who reside on or near a military installation, however, resources for families and children of deployed Reserve and National Guard members are often difficult to access because the families do not reside near a military installation;

Whereas a number of nonprofit organizations have dedicated themselves to ensuring that children of military families receive the support they urgently need while they cope with the deployment of parents, in particular by providing essential extracurricular activities and programs for school-aged children of deployed Reserve and National Guard members;

Whereas these organizations include Our Military Kids, Inc., Parents as Teachers, Citizen Soldier Support program, Operation Homefront Inc., American Military Families, Inc., and Kids Serve 2; and

Whereas these programs and organizations have helped children of deployed members of the Armed Forces maintain as normal a life as possible by allowing funds to be used for a range of activities that might otherwise be unavailable to them: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That Congress recognizes and commends all volunteers and other persons who provide support to the families and children of members of the Armed Forces, including National Guard and Reserve personnel, who are deployed in service to the United States and honors military families and the non-governmental organizations that support them.

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