City of Columbus - File #: 015X-2004

• File #: 015X-2004
• Version: 1
• Type: Ceremonial Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 1/23/2004
• In control: Tavares
• On agenda: 1/26/2004
• Final action: 1/28/2004
• Title: To welcome the honorable Jesse Jackson, Jr. to the City of Columbus.
• Sponsors: Charleta B. Tavares

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/28/2004	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
1/27/2004	1	MAYOR	Signed
1/26/2004	1	Columbus City Council	Adopted	Pass
1/26/2004	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
1/23/2004	1	Council Drafter	Sent to Clerk's Office for Council

Title

To welcome the honorable Jesse Jackson, Jr. to the City of Columbus.

Body

Whereas, Jesse Jackson, Jr. became the 91^st African American ever elected to Congress on December 12, 1995; and

Whereas, Representative Jackson currently sits on the House Appropriations Committee, serving as the 5^th Ranking Democrat on the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education as well as the 2^nd ranking Democrat on the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Report Financing, and Related programs; and

Whereas, Representative Jackson's illustrated strong leadership in creating the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health in 2001, hailed by many minority health experts as the most important civil rights legislation since the 1964 Civil Rights Act.; and

Whereas, Representative Jackson also secured the funding for the Institute of Medicine's historic 2002 report on health disparities entitled "Unequal Treatment"; now therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:

That this Council does hereby welcome the honorable Jesse Jackson, Jr. to the City of Columbus.