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1 1 HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. ___
1 2 BY DAVIS, LARSON, JAGER, BARRY, DIX, HEATON,
1 3 ARNOLD, ALONS, JOHNSON, WARNSTADT, and CONNORS
1 4 (COMPANION TO LSB 5911SS BY DRAKE)
1 5 A Concurrent Resolution requesting the Congress
1 6 of the United States to appropriate sufficient
1 7 funding to the United States Naval Fleet and the
1 8 United States Flag Merchant Marine Fleet.
1 9 WHEREAS, the continuing reduction of the United
1 10 States armed forces is dangerously straining the
1 11 ability of the United States to respond adequately to
1 12 regional threats, with the United States Naval Fleet
1 13 shrinking from nearly 600 ships in 1987 to less than
1 14 325 ships today; and
1 15 WHEREAS, the United States is currently building
1 16 military ships at half the rate needed to maintain
1 17 even a modest fleet, while the demands on the United
1 18 States sea power forces have increased significantly
1 19 since the end of the Cold War; and
1 20 WHEREAS, the United States is presently deploying
1 21 its Navy and Marines three times as often as the
1 22 United States did before the fall of the Soviet Union,
1 23 while procuring fewer ships than at anytime since
1 24 1932, with the current fleet being the smallest since
1 25 1917; and
1 26 WHEREAS, the safety and economic prosperity of the
1 27 United States are tied to the political stability of
1 28 every part of the globe, and the United States faces a
1 29 dangerous and challenging situation where, as the only
1 30 superpower, it has an obligation to ensure that
2 1 conflicts do not escalate into major military or
2 2 humanitarian disasters; and
2 3 WHEREAS, the United States has a different and far
2 4 more complex duty now than during the Cold War, and
2 5 must be prepared to deploy air and sea power as well
2 6 as ground troops, upon short notice; and
2 7 WHEREAS, because the United States has closed many
2 8 military bases in the past decade, only the Naval
2 9 Fleet can transport large numbers of Army and Air
2 10 Force equipment, troops, and supplies around the world
2 11 to support military operations that deal with threats
2 12 to national security of the United States; and
2 13 WHEREAS, nations engaging in terrorist activities
2 14 have vast supplies of chemical and biological agents,
2 15 with several nations developing their own nuclear
2 16 weapons; and
2 17 WHEREAS, the health of the economy of the United
2 18 States depends on international stability, as vast
2 19 markets for the agricultural and manufactured products
2 20 of the United States and the world's investment
2 21 markets are intertwined; NOW THEREFORE,
2 22 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE
2 23 SENATE CONCURRING, That the Iowa General Assembly
2 24 requests that the Congress of the United States,
2 25 committed to the safety and economic security of the
2 26 United States, authorize and appropriate sufficient
2 27 funding to build at least 10 ships per year for the
2 28 next decade; and
2 29 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Iowa General
2 30 Assembly call upon the Presidential candidates to
3 1 express their commitment to rebuilding the United
3 2 States Naval Fleet and the United States Flag Merchant
3 3 Marine Fleet; and
3 4 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That official copies of
3 5 this Resolution be transmitted to the President of the
3 6 United States, the President of the United States
3 7 Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of
3 8 Representatives, and the members of Iowa's
3 9 congressional delegation.
3 10 LSB 5911HH 78
3 11 tm/as/5
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