HRES 56 · 119th Congress 2025–2027

Memorializing the unborn by lowering the United States flag to half-staff on the 22d day of January each year.

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jan 22, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Progress

Where this resolution reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried. A simple resolution is the business of one chamber alone: it is not sent to the other chamber or to the President, and does not become law.

  1. IntroducedJan 22, 2025
  2. Agreed to in HouseNot reached

Summary

This resolution expresses support for recognizing a Day of Tears and lowering flags to half-staff to honor unborn lives lost to abortion.

Cosponsors 14

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jan 22, 2025.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-TNAndrew OglesOriginalJan 22, 2025
R-AZAndy BiggsOriginalJan 22, 2025
R-FLByron DonaldsOriginalJan 22, 2025
R-NYClaudia TenneyOriginalJan 22, 2025
R-WIGlenn GrothmanOriginalJan 22, 2025
R-OKJosh BrecheenOriginalJan 22, 2025
R-TXKeith SelfOriginalJan 22, 2025
R-COLauren BoebertOriginalJan 22, 2025
R-ILMary E. MillerOriginalJan 22, 2025
R-SCRalph NormanOriginalJan 22, 2025
R-IARandy FeenstraOriginalJan 22, 2025
R-TXRandy K. Weber, Sr.OriginalJan 22, 2025
R-ALRobert B. AderholtOriginalJan 22, 2025
R-MSTrent KellyOriginalJan 22, 2025

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jan 22, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
  2. Jan 22, 2025Submitted in House

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Jan 22, 2025Introduced in House

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