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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 371
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session J SENATE1 115-223
ROBERT EMMET PARK ACT OF 2017
APRIL 10, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1500]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (H.R. 1500) 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,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do
pass.
PURPOSE
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
U.S. reservation 302 is a triangle park in the Northwestern por-
tion of the District of Columbia along Massachusetts Avenue N.W.,
between 24th and S Streets, which is part of Rock Creek Park. The
triangle park contains an historic sculpture of Robert Emmet that
was created by the artist Jerome Connor in 1916.
Robert Emmet (1778-1803) is considered an Irish nationalist
leader, and often remembered as a romantic hero of Irish lost
causes. Mr. Emmet played a prominent role in the Irish Rebellion,
and attempted to escape to the United States before being cap-
tured, tried for treason, and hanged. Although Mr. Emmet's at-
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