A resolution honoring the life and legacy of President Jimmy Carter and commending President Jimmy Carter for his life-long career of public service, humanitarian leadership, diplomacy, and courageous advocacy.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 19 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 19

 Honoring the life and legacy of President Jimmy Carter and commending
  President Jimmy Carter for his life-long career of public service,
      humanitarian leadership, diplomacy, and courageous advocacy.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 9, 2025

   Mr. Warnock (for himself, Mr. Ossoff, Mr. Thune, Mr. Schumer, Ms.
  Alsobrooks, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Banks, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Bennet, Mrs.
    Blackburn, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Mr. Booker, Mr.
Boozman, Mrs. Britt, Mr. Budd, Ms. Cantwell, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Cassidy,
 Ms. Collins, Mr. Coons, Mr. Cornyn, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Cotton, Mr.
Cramer, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Curtis, Mr. Daines, Ms. Duckworth, Mr.
   Durbin, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Fetterman, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Gallego, Mrs.
  Gillibrand, Mr. Graham, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Hagerty, Ms. Hassan, Mr.
 Hawley, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Hickenlooper, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Hoeven, Mrs.
 Hyde-Smith, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Kim,
Mr. King, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Lee, Mr. Lujan, Ms. Lummis,
 Mr. Markey, Mr. Marshall, Mr. McConnell, Mr. McCormick, Mr. Merkley,
  Mr. Moran, Mr. Moreno, Mr. Mullin, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Murphy, Mrs.
Murray, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Paul, Mr. Peters, Mr. Reed, Mr. Ricketts, Mr.
 Risch, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Schatz, Mr.
Schiff, Mr. Schmitt, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Scott of South Carolina,
  Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Sheehy, Ms. Slotkin, Ms. Smith, Mr. Sullivan, Mr.
  Tillis, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Vance, Mr. Warner, Ms.
   Warren, Mr. Welch, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Wyden, and Mr.
  Young) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and
                               agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION

 Honoring the life and legacy of President Jimmy Carter and commending
  President Jimmy Carter for his life-long career of public service,
      humanitarian leadership, diplomacy, and courageous advocacy.

Whereas President Jimmy Carter was born James Earl Carter, Jr. on October 1,
        1924, in Plains, Georgia;
Whereas President Carter excelled in his academic studies, graduating from
        Plains High School in 1941, studying at Georgia Southwestern College and
        the Georgia Institute of Technology, and graduating with distinction in
        the top 10 percent of his class at the United States Naval Academy in
        1946;
Whereas President Carter married Rosalynn Carter on July 7, 1946, and they later
        had 4 children, 12 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren;
Whereas President Carter served the United States as a Lieutenant in the United
        States Navy submarine service, where he was assigned to the Navy's elite
        nuclear submarine program, and, after his father's passing in 1953, he
        resigned from his naval duties to return to Plains to run his family's
        peanut farm and warehouse;
Whereas President Carter began his career of public service in leadership
        positions in Sumter County, Georgia, before being elected to serve 2
        terms as a Georgia State Senator from 1963 to 1967;
Whereas President Carter, while serving as the 76th Governor of Georgia from
        1971 to 1975, challenged racial discrimination and wasteful government
        practices and reorganized and streamlined State government;
Whereas the people of the United States elected Jimmy Carter to serve as the
        39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981;
Whereas, in September 1978, President Carter brokered the Camp David Accords
        between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister
        Menachem Begin, which established a framework for a historic peace
        treaty between Israel and Egypt, beginning an era of lasting peace
        between the 2 nations;
Whereas, in October 1978, President Carter signed the Civil Service Reform Act
        of 1978 (Public Law 95-454; 92 Stat. 1111), which established the Office
        of Personnel Management in the Executive Branch, created the Senior
        Executive Service, and codified Federal labor relations for non-postal
        Federal employees;
Whereas, during President Carter's administration, the United States and the
        People's Republic of China established official diplomatic relations for
        the first time;
Whereas President Carter worked with Congress to create the Department of
        Education and the Department of Energy to oversee comprehensive
        education and energy policy for the United States;
Whereas, in 1979, President Carter successfully negotiated the Strategic Arms
        Limitations Treaty (SALT) II with Soviet Union General Secretary Leonid
        Brezhnev to restrict the nuclear forces of both nations;
Whereas President Carter, after leaving the White House, remained devoted to
        public service, serving as a professor at Emory University in Atlanta,
        Georgia, and co-founding with his wife, Rosalynn, The Carter Center to
        alleviate human suffering and advance human rights by strengthening
        democracy, resolving conflicts, fighting neglected tropical diseases,
        and improving access to mental health care worldwide;
Whereas The Carter Center has engaged in conflict mediation in the Middle East,
        Africa, Europe, South America, the Caribbean, and Asia, spearheaded
        efforts that have nearly eradicated the Guinea worm disease and
        eliminated several other tropical diseases in regions of Africa and the
        Americas, improved mental health care, faithfully observed more than 100
        elections in 40 countries to strengthen global democracies, and promoted
        international human rights;
Whereas President Carter was a dedicated volunteer with Habitat for Humanity and
        co-led the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project for over 30 years,
        working on approximately 4,400 homes in 14 countries to build affordable
        housing;
Whereas President Carter received the United Nations Human Rights Prize in 1998;
Whereas President Carter and Rosalynn Carter jointly received the Presidential
        Medal of Freedom in 1999 for their exemplary contributions towards
        globally advancing peace, human rights, and health;
Whereas President Carter was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his decades
        of work in international conflict resolution, human rights, and economic
        and social development, making him 1 of 4 United States Presidents to
        receive the prize;
Whereas President Carter lived to be 100 years old, longer than any other
        President; and
Whereas President Carter leaves behind an honorable legacy of humanitarian work
        and a shining example of a lifetime of service: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) mourns the passing of former President Jimmy Carter,
        the longest living President in the history of the United
        States, and extends its sympathies to his family; and
            (2) honors the life and legacy of former President Jimmy
        Carter and his contributions to the United States of America.
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