HR 9 - AS INTRODUCED
2023 SESSION
23-0059
08/10
HOUSE RESOLUTION 9
SPONSORS: Rep. Adjutant, Graf. 16; Rep. Wilhelm, Hills. 40; Rep. Massimilla, Graf. 1; Rep. Toll, Ches. 15
COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This house resolution calls for the federal government to enact an American Marshall Plan to rebuild economically impoverished communities and strengthen climate resilience infrastructure.
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23-0059
08/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
Whereas, European towns, cities, and countries sustained unprecedented infrastructure damage as a consequence of the Second World War from bombing and combat; and
Whereas, President Harry Truman feared that post-war Europe could be susceptible to authoritarianism and radicalism if war-torn countries were not rebuilt; and
Whereas, The Marshall Plan, officially titled The European Recovery Program, sought to rebuild Europe following the Second World War; and
Whereas, The Marshall Plan was so successful that by 1952, every participant nation had economies that were stronger than their pre-war economies; and
Whereas, many communities across the United States suffer similar infrastructure and economic conditions as post-war Europe; and
Whereas, American deindustrialization has left many communities economically hollowed and devastated; and
Whereas, climate change continues to ravage communities across the United States, engulfing entire towns in flames in the west, and flooding others in the east; and
Whereas, the actions of individual Americans will not be able to reduce the larger structural impacts of economic stagnation and climate catastrophe; and
Whereas, further ignoring of these issues could lead to the kind of totalitarianism that Secretary Marshall and President Truman feared; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives:
That the New Hampshire house of representatives requests the federal government establish an American Marshall plan to rebuild, fortify, and secure American communities who have felt the negative economic impacts of deindustrialization and climate change; and
That copies of this resolution be forwarded by the house clerk to the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and to each member of the New Hampshire congressional delegation