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Pritchard Park / Japanese American Memorial on Bainbridge Island
| Inslee lauds enactment of Bainbridge memorial bill |
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[8 May 2008 ] U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee lauded the enactment of the Consolidated Natural Resources Act, an omnibus package of more than 60 public-lands bills that included his Bainbridge Island Japanese American memorial bill. |
| Inslee lauds enactment of Bainbridge memorial bill |
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[8 May 2008 ] The president signed into law an omnibus package of more than 60 public-lands bills that includes the Bainbridge Island Japanese American memorial bill. |
| Bainbridge Japanese American memorial, Wild Sky finally through Congress |
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[29 April 2008] Bipartisan legislation that would provide federal designation to a historic site and a wilderness area in western Washington was approved by the House today and is headed to the president’s desk for signature into law. |
| House approves park designation for historic Bainbridge site |
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[ 6 February 2007 ] The House unanimously passed a bill authored by U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee that would give national park status to the site on Bainbridge Island, Wash., from which the first Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during World War II. |
| Historic icon testifies before Congress |
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[ 28 September 2006 ] The House Resources Committee often hears testimony from scientists, government officials and corporate executives. Today it heard from a legend. |
| Hearing set for Inslee's Bainbridge memorial bill |
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[ 20 September 2006 ] The House Resources Committee announced it will hold hearings on a dozen bills, including one authored by panel member U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee that would designate a memorial for Japanese Americans interned during World War II as a national park. |
| Plan for Bainbridge memorial gains momentum |
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[ 14 September 2006 ] Support grew for U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee's effort to include a Bainbridge-Island memorial for Japanese Americans interned during World War II in the national park system. |
| Bipartisan coalition files bill to honor internees |
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[ 17 July 2006 ] U.S. Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) filed legislation in the House that would include a Bainbridge Island, Wash., memorial honoring the first Japanese Americans sent to World War II internment camps in the national park system. |
| Interior endorses national park designation for Bainbridge memorial |
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[ 5 May 2006 ] The Interior Department released a long-awaited report, supporting the inclusion of a memorial at the former Eagledale Ferry Dock that honors the first Japanese Americans interned during World War II in the national park system, as part of the Minidoka Internment National Monument in Idaho. |
| Inslee calls for inclusion of Bainbridge Island memorial in national park system |
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[ 30 March 2006 ] Sixty-four years after the first Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps from Bainbridge Island, U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee urged the Department of the Interior to include the ferry dock from which these internees left for Manzanar Relocation Center in the national park system. |
| Supporting the Bainbridge Island Curriculum on Internment |
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[ 9 September 2004 ] In response to the controversy surrounding the Bainbridge Island School District's social studies curriculum on the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee sent the following letter to the Superintendent of the Bainbridge Island School District... |
| Funding $100,000 For Study of Eagledale Ferry Dock Site |
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[ 30 March 2004 ] Today, U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee (WA-01), and U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray announced $100,000 in funding from the National Park Service (NPS) to continue a study of the Eagledale Ferry Dock Site on Bainbridge Island for a Japanese American memorial. |
| Pritchard Park Funding Passes Senate |
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[ 22 January 2004 ] U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee is pleased to announce that the U.S. Senate approved $2 million to acquire land for Pritchard Park on Bainbridge Island. The park funding is in the Omnibus appropriations bill, which was passed the House of Representatives in late December, and the bill is now on its way to the President’s desk.U.S. Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell were instrumental in obtaining funding for the park in the Senate version of the bill. |
| Enthusiasm for Future Pritchard Park |
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[ 9 May 9 2003 ] U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee, Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell today commended recent steps taken by the Trust for Public Land and the City of Bainbridge Island towards protecting historic property on Bainbridge Island for a future park. The property is adjacent to the planned Japanese-American internment memorial, where hundreds of Japanese-American citizens were rounded up at the former Eagledale ferry dock and sent to internment camps during World War II. |
| Inslee Condemns Colleague's Remarks on Internment Camps |
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[ 5 February 2003 ] U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee, whose legislation to memorialize the internment of Japanese-Americans was recently signed into law by President Bush, today reacted to U.S. Rep. Howard Coble's statement that he agreed with the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. |