02/09/2012 09:00 AM Senate STATE AFFAIRS

            SCR 18-RAOUL WALLENBERG REMEMBRANCE DAY                                                                         
                                                                                                                              
10:25:34 AM                                                                                                                   
CHAIR  WIELECHOWSKI   announced  that  SCR  18   was  before  the                                                               
committee.  The resolution  designates August  4, 2012,  as Raoul                                                               
Wallenberg Remembrance Day.                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR FRED  DYSON, sponsor, SCR  18, introduced  the resolution                                                               
by quoting  Solomon from 3,000 years  ago, "If a man  thinketh in                                                               
his  heart, so  is  he."  He said  that  Raoul  Wallenberg was  a                                                               
Swedish  diplomat who  was responsible  for  saving over  100,000                                                               
Jewish people during the holocaust.  The Guinness Book of Records                                                               
says  that  no  one  in  history saved  more  people  than  Raoul                                                               
Wallenberg. August  12, 2012,  will be  the 100th  Anniversary of                                                               
Raoul  Wallenberg's  birth.  Many   Alaskans  are  interested  in                                                               
honoring this hero and no one objects to this proposal.                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR WIELECHOWSKI  noted that  Raoul Wallenberg  is one  of only                                                               
two persons to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.                                                                
                                                                                                                                
10:28:31 AM                                                                                                                   
DAVID  GOTTSTEIN,  Anchorage,  Alaska,   testifying  on  his  own                                                               
behalf, spoke  in support of SCR  18. He shared a  personal story                                                               
about Raoul Wallenberg.                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  PASKVAN moved  to report  SCR 18  out of  committee with                                                               
individual recommendations and attached zero fiscal note.                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR  WIELECHOWSKI  announced  that without  objection,  SCR  18                                                               
moved from the Senate State Affairs Standing Committee.