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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSENATE RESOLUTION 849—EXPRESSING SUPPORT FOR THE DESIGNATION OF THE
WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 11 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 17, 2026, AS “PATRIOT WEEK”
Mr. PETERS (for himself and Mr. Kennedy) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary:
S. Res. 849
Whereas the events that led to the signing of the
Constitution of the United States by the delegates to the
Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, have
significance for every citizen of the United States and are
honored in public schools across the United States on
Constitution Day, which is September 17 of each year;
Whereas the rule of law, the social compact, democracy,
liberty, equality, and unalienable human rights are the
essential values upon which the United States flourishes;
Whereas diversity is one of the greatest strengths of the
United States, and the motto inscribed on the Great Seal of
the United States, “E pluribus unum”, Latin for “out of
many, one”, symbolizes that individuals in the United States
from all walks of life are unified by shared values;
Whereas exceptional, visionary, and indispensable
individuals such as Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, John Adams,
John Marshall, George Washington, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Abraham
Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas
Jefferson, and James Madison founded or advanced the United
States;
Whereas the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution
of the United States, the Declaration of Sentiments and
Resolutions signed in Seneca Falls, New York, the Gettysburg
Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the “I Have a
Dream” speech delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr., express
sentiments that have advanced liberty in the United States;
and
Whereas the Bennington flag (commonly known as the “'76
flag”), the Betsy Ross flag, the current flag of the United
States, the flag of the women's suffrage movement, the Union
flag (commonly known as the “Fort Sumter flag”), the
Gadsden flag, and the flags of the States are physical
symbols of the history of the United States: Now, therefore,
be it
Resolved, That the Senate—
(1) supports the designation of the week of September 11
through September 17, 2026, as “Patriot Week”;
(2) recognizes that understanding the history of the United
States and the first principles of the United States is
indispensable to the survival of the United States as a free
people;
(3) acknowledges, in great reverence to the victims of the
September 11, 2001, attacks, that citizens of the United
States should take time to honor the first principles,
founders, documents, and symbols of their history;
(4) recognizes that each generation should renew the spirit
of the United States based on the first principles,
historical figures, founding documents, and symbols of the
United States; and
(5) encourages citizens, schools and other educational
institutions, and Federal, State, and local governments and
their agencies to recognize and participate in Patriot Week
by honoring, celebrating, and promoting the study of the
history of the United States so that all people of the United
States may offer the reverence that is due to the free
republic.