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PUBLIC LAW 99-000—MMMM. DD, 1985

CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS-MAY 15, 1985

99 STAT. 1933

187), is accepted in the name of the United States, and the thanks of the Congress are tendered to the State of Montana for the contribution of the statue of one of its most eminent personages, the first woman elected to the United States Congress, known for her courage and convictions regarding equality and peace. SEC. 2. The State of Montana is authorized to place temporarily in the rotunda of the Capitol the statute of Jeannette Rankin referred to in the first section of this concurrent resolution, and to hold ceremonies on May 1, 1985, in the rotunda on that occasion. The Architect of the Capitol is authorized to make the necessary arrangements therefor. SEC. 3. (a) The proceedings in the rotunda of the Capitol at the presentation by the State of Montana of the statue of Jeannette Rankin for the National Statuary Hall collection, together with appropriate illustrations and other pertinent matter, shall be printed as a Senate document. The copy for such document shall be prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library. (b) There shall be printed five thousand additional copies of such document which shall be bound in such style as the Joint Committee on Printing shall direct, of which one hundred and three copies shall be for the use of the Senate and eighteen hundred and ninety-seven copies shall be for the use of the Members of the Senate from the State of Montana, and four hundred and sixty-three copies shall be for the use of the House of Representatives, and two thousand five hundred and thirty-seven copies shall be for the use of the Members of the House of Representatives from the State of Montana. SEC. 4. The Secretary of the Senate shall transmit a copy of this concurrent resolution to the Governor of Montana. Agreed to April 30, 1985.

HEAD START PROGRAM—TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION Whereas on May 18, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the establishment of Project Head Start; Whereas by the end of the summer of 1965, nearly five hundred and sixty thousand low-income preschool children had been enrolled in thirteen thousand and four hundred Head Start centers in two thousand five hundred American communities; Whereas over the past twenty years the Head Start Program has grown from a six- to eight-week summer demonstration program to a year-round early childhood enrichment program; Whereas over nine million low-income preschool children have been enrolled in and benefited from the Head Start Program since its inception in 1965; Whereas the Head Start Program has provided essential health, education, nutritional, and social services to these children and their families and has had a profound impact on the physical, social, and cognitive development of these children; Whereas the emphasis in the Head Start Program on broad-based participation of the parents of children enrolled in the program has contributed in many important ways to the self-sufficiency,

Mayi5, 1985 [H. Con. Res. 95]