It was referred to the Natural Resources committee.
This bill prohibits the use of any federal funds to alter, change, destroy, or remove any name, face, or other feature on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota.
117th CONGRESS 2d Session |
To provide that no Federal funds shall be used to alter, change, destroy, or remove, in whole or in part, any name, face, or other feature on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
August 19, 2022
Mr. Johnson of South Dakota introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
To provide that no Federal funds shall be used to alter, change, destroy, or remove, in whole or in part, any name, face, or other feature on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “Mount Rushmore Protection Act”.
Congress finds the following:
(1) Mount Rushmore National Memorial is America’s Shrine of Democracy.
(2) The Mount Rushmore National Memorial depicts the faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, with the beauty of the Black Hills of South Dakota.
SEC. 3. Prohibition on use of Federal funds.
No Federal funds shall be used to alter, change, destroy, or remove, in whole or in part, any name, face, or other feature on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
You can read the bill here.
