00                   SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 3                                                                   
01 Urging the Alaska Historical Commission to prepare recommendations for the naming                                       
02 of a geographical feature in the state as a permanent legacy in recognition of President                                
03 Ronald Reagan's service to the United States of America.                                                                
04 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
05       WHEREAS Ronald Wilson Reagan served the United States of America with honor                                     
06 and distinction as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989; and                                       
07       WHEREAS President Reagan led a bipartisan effort to enact a bold agenda that                                    
08 brought common sense to the government and led to unprecedented economic growth and                                     
09 opportunity for millions of Americans; and                                                                              
10       WHEREAS President Reagan's leadership and foreign policy initiatives led to the end                             
11 of the Cold War, the rise of democracy in the Soviet Union, the collapse of the Berlin Wall,                            
12 and an expansion of democracy around the world that guaranteed basic human rights for                                   
13 millions of people in the Middle East, Europe, the Caribbean, and Central America; and                                  
14       WHEREAS President Reagan signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty                                    
15 between the United States and the Soviet Union, which reduced the number of nuclear                                     

01 warheads primed for launch by the world's two superpowers and established the framework                                 
02 for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty; and                                                                            
03       WHEREAS President Reagan advanced equality for women by appointing Sandra                                       
04 Day O'Connor as the first woman Justice of the United States Supreme Court; and                                         
05       WHEREAS, throughout his presidency, Ronald Reagan advocated limiting federal                                  
06 government control over the land and natural resources of Alaska; and                                                   
07       WHEREAS, in 1983, President Reagan signed into law the Alaska Railroad Transfer                                 
08 Act, transferring ownership of the Alaska Railroad to the state; and                                                    
09       WHEREAS President Reagan signed legislation authorizing reparations to be paid to                               
10 Aleuts who were displaced from their homes and sent to internment camps, known as                                       
11 "duration villages," during World War II; and                                                                           
12       WHEREAS President Reagan supported the Village Built Clinic Leasing Program,                                    
13 which funded Indian Health Service clinics in Native villages throughout the state, bringing                            
14 basic health care to many Alaskans;                                                                                     
15       BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature urges the Alaska Historical                                    
16 Commission to prepare recommendations for the naming of a geographical feature in the state                             
17 as a permanent legacy in recognition of President Ronald Reagan's service to the United                                 
18 States of America; and be it                                                                                            
19       FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature honors the memory of                                         
20 President Ronald Reagan and recognizes his accomplishments in service to Alaska, the                                    
21 nation, and the world.