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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-114
ROBERT EMMET PARK ACT OF 2017
MAY 11, 2017.- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1500]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1500) to redesignate the small triangular property lo-
cated in Washington, DC, and designated by the National Park
Service as reservation 302 as Robert Emmet Park, and for other
purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon
without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 1500 is to redesignate the small triangular
property located in Washington, DC, and designated by the Na-
tional Park Service as reservation 302 as Robert Emmet Park.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Robert Emmet is a prominent historical figure known for his role
in the Irish Rebellion of 1803 and his classic Speech from the
Dock that inspired future efforts to gain Irish Independence.
Emmet, greatly influenced by American democracy and the Amer-
ican Revolution, famously said before his execution, To [Ireland]
I sacrificed every selfish, every lasting sentiment . . . I wished to
place her independence beyond the reach of any power of earth
. . to procure for my country the guarantee which Washington
procured for America . . . to exalt her to that proud station in the
world.
H.R. 1500 renames National Park Service Reservation 302, lo-
cated at the corner of 24th Street and Massachusetts Avenue
Northwest in the District of Columbia, as Robert Emmet Park.
The .08 acre triangular property prominently features a nearly 100
year-old statue of Robert Emmet, the first statue ever made of the
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