美国国会600号决议全文

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HRES 600 IH

111th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. RES. 600

A tribute to an American legend and musical icon.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 26, 2009

Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas (for herself and Ms. WATSON) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

RESOLUTION

A tribute to an American legend and musical icon.

Whereas Michael Jackson was not only an accomplished recording and performing artist, he was a noted humanitarian;

Whereas Michael Jackson began his stellar recording career as the featured member of ‘The Jackson 5’, which was the first act in recorded history to have their first four major label singles ‘I Want You Back’,‘ABC’,‘The Love You Save’, and ‘I’ll Be There’, reached the top of the American charts;

Whereas the internationally recognized ‘Thriller’ released in 1982, which became a smash hit yielded seven top-10 singles. The album sold 21 million copies in the United States and at least 27 million worldwide. It was a monumental moment in music history;

Whereas Michael Jackson was labeled ‘The King of Pop’, Jackson’s music is internationally recognized and critically acclaimed;

Whereas Michael Jackson was one of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice;

Whereas in the early 1980s, Michael Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music and the first African-American entertainer to amass a strong crossover following on MTV. The popularity of his music videos airing on MTV, such as ‘Beat It’, ‘Billie Jean’ and ‘Thriller’–widely credited with transforming the music video from a promotional tool into an art form–helped bring the relatively new channel to fame;

Whereas, on January 10, 1984, Michael Jackson visited the unit for burn victims at Brotman-Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles, and demonstrated his concern with people suffering from grievous injuries;

Whereas, on April 9, 1984, David Smithee, a 14-year-old boy suffering from cystic fibroses was invited to Michael’s home, in response to a dying request to meet Michael. David passed away 7 weeks later;

Whereas, on April 14, 1984, Michael Jackson was single handedly responsible for equipping a 19-bed-unit at Mount Sinai New York Medical Center. This center is now a critical part of the T.J. Martell Foundation for leukemia and cancer research;

Whereas, on July 5, 1984, during the Jackson’s press conference at Tavern On The Green, Michael announced that his portion of the earnings from the Victory Tour would be donated to three charitable organizations: The United Negro College Fund, Camp Good Times, and the T.J. Martell Foundation;

Whereas, on July 14, 1984, after the first concert of the Victory Tour, Michael met 8 terminally ill children backstage;

Whereas, on December 13, 1984, Michael visited the Brotman Memorial Hospital, where he had been treated when he was burned during the producing of a Pepsi commercial. He subsequently donated all the money he received from Pepsi, $1.5 million, to the Michael Jackson Burn Center for Children;

Whereas, on January 28, 1985 Michael and 44 other artists met to record ‘We Are The World’, written by Michael and Lionel Ritchie, a project devoted to fighting global hunger. The proceeds of this record were donated to the starving people in Africa;

Whereas in 1986, Michael set up the ‘Michael Jackson UNCF Endowed Scholarship Fund’. This $1.5 million fund is aimed toward assisting students majoring in performance art and communications, with money given each year to students attending a UNCF member college or university;

Whereas, on February 28, 1986, after having had a heart-transplant, 14-year-old Donna Ashlock from California received a call from Michael Jackson. He had heard that she was a fan. Michael invited Donna to his home following her recovery;

Whereas, on September 13, 1987, Michael supported a campaign against racism. He made every effort to publicly support NAACP, in the fight against discrimination of African-American artists;

Whereas in October 1987, at the end of his ‘Bad Tour’, Michael donated personal items to UNESCO for a charitable auction. The proceeds of his donation were allocated for the education of children in developing countries;

Whereas, on February 1, 1988 The Song ‘Man In the Mirror’ entered the charts. The proceeds from the sales of this record went directly and exclusively to Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times, a camp for children who suffer from Cancer;

Whereas, on March 1, 1988, at a press conference held by his sponsor Pepsi, Michael presented a $600,000 check to the United Negro College Fund;

Whereas on April 1988, Michael Jackson ensured that free tickets to three concerts in Atlanta, Georgia, were specifically set aside for the Make a Wish Foundation;

Whereas, on May 22, 1988, Michael visited cancer-stricken children in the Bambini-Gesu Children’s Hospital in Rome. He signed autographs and gave away sweets and records to the young patients. He also announced his monetary donation of 100,000 pounds to the hospital;

Whereas, on July 16, 1988, Michael met the Prince of Wales and his wife Diana, where he donated 150,000 pounds for the Prince’s Trust, and a check of 100,000 pounds for the children’s hospital at Great Ormond Street;

Whereas, on July 20, 1988, Michael visited terminally ill children at Great Ormond Street Hospital. At a unit for less critical patients he stayed longer and to engage in story telling time with the children;

Whereas, on August 29, 1988, at his 30th birthday Michael performed a concert in Leeds, England, for the English charity organization ‘Give For Life’, an organization designed as an immunization charity for children. Michael presented a check for 65,000 pounds;

Whereas on January 1989, the proceeds of one of Michael’s shows in Los Angeles were donated to Childhelp USA, the biggest charity organization against child abuse. In appreciation of the contributions of Michael, Childhelp of Southern California founded the ‘Michael Jackson International Institute for Research On Child Abuse’;

Whereas, on January 10, 1989, upon the winding down of his ‘Bad Tour’, Michael Jackson donated tickets for each concert to underprivileged children, and made contributions to hospitals, orphanages and charity organizations throughout each stop on his tour;

Whereas, on February 7, 1989, Michael visited the Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California, a site of playground violence where 5 children had been tragically killed and 39 had been wounded;

Whereas, on March 5, 1989, Michael invited 200 underprivileged children of the St. Vincent Institute for Handicapped Children and of the organization Big Brothers and Big Sisters to the Circus Vargas in Santa Barbara. Following the event, the children were invited to his ranch to visit his private Zoo at Neverland Ranch;

Whereas in December 1991, Michael’s office MJJ Productions donated more than 200 turkey dinners to needy families in Los Angeles;

Whereas in February 1992, within 11 days Michael covered 30,000 miles in Africa, to visit hospitals, orphanages, schools, churches, and institutions for mentally handicapped children;

Whereas, on February 3, 1992, at a press conference at the New York Radio City Music Hall, Michael announced that he is planning a new world tour, to raise funds for his new ‘Heal The World’ Foundation. This Foundation was designed to support the fight against AIDS, Juvenile Diabetes, the Ronald McDonald Camp, and the Make A Wish Foundation;

Whereas, on May 6, 1992, Michael defrayed the funeral expenses for Ramon Sanchez, who was killed during the Los Angeles riots;

Whereas, on June 26, 1992, Michael presented the Mayor of Munich, Mr. Kronawitter, with a 40,000 DM check for the needy people of the city;

Whereas on July 1992, Michael donated 821,477,296 Lire to La Partita del Cuore (The Heart Match) in Rome and donated 120,000 DM to children’s charities in Estonia and Latvia;

Whereas, on July 25, 1992, at his concert in Dublin, Ireland, Michael announced that he will give 400,000 pounds of the tour earnings to various charities;

Whereas in June 1993, Michael announced a donation of $1.25 million for children suffering as a result of the riots in Los Angeles;

Whereas on October 1993, Michael Jackson donated $100,000 to the Children’s Defense Fund, the Children’s Diabetes Foundation, the Atlanta Project, and the Boys and Girl Clubs of Newark, New Jersey;

Whereas on December 1993, in conjunction with the Gorbachev Foundation, Michael Jackson airlifted 60,000 doses of children’s vaccines to Tblisi, Georgia;

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Whereas in 1994, Michael donated $500,000 to Elizabeth Taylor’s AIDS Foundation;

Whereas, on October 1, 1996, Michael donated the proceeds of his Tunisia concert to ‘The National Solidarity Fund’, a charity dedicated to fighting poverty;

Whereas, on December 9, 1996, during the ‘History Tour’ visit in Manila, Michael visited a Children’s Hospital, where he announced that a portion of his concert earnings will be donated to the renovation of the Hospital;

Whereas the Millennium Issue of the ‘Guinness Book Of Records’ named Michael as ‘the Pop Star who supports the most charity organizations’;

Whereas in 2004, The African Ambassadors’ Spouses Association, honored Michael Jackson for his worldwide humanitarian efforts, due to his fiscal contribution of more than $50 million to various charities, including many organizations that feed the hungry in Africa; and

Whereas we today mourn with and send our condolences to the children that Michael Jackson left behind: Prince Michael, Paris Michael, and Prince Michael II and his mother, father, brothers, and sisters: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the House of Representatives–

(1) recognizes Michael Jackson as a global humanitarian and a noted leader in the fight against worldwide hunger and medical crises; and

(2) celebrates Michael Jackson as an accomplished contributor to the worlds of arts and entertainment, scientific advances in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, and global food security.

june11837

有人发过了呢

killyhyuk

紫璇

神呐，我还是学生一名，这么高难度的东西，实在看不懂啊，

ioriyyy888

我也这么觉得。。。我发现英语比文言文好学多了。。。学外语最主要的是兴趣。。有了兴趣你会想方设法的去学

小木头_1983

全是功绩...超摆！！！！

MJ，SO PROUD OF YOU.

liuxiulide

总算通过了 那些功绩可是铁的事实

MJ-Ruby-JD

美国国会600号决议全文
HRES 600中转

第111届国会

第一届会议

每小时解像度。 600

对一个美国的传奇人物，音乐图标表示敬意。

在众议院

2009年6月26日

Jackson女士的得克萨斯州李（女士为自己和华生）提出了以下决议;这是提到了外交事务委员会

解决

对一个美国的传奇人物，音乐图标表示敬意。

虽然迈克尔杰克逊不仅是完成录音和表演艺术家，他是著名的人道主义;

而迈克尔杰克逊开始为'特色成员的辉煌的音乐事业，在杰克逊的5'，这是有史以来的第一件事有他们的第一单打四大标签'我想要你回到'，'广播'，'你的爱保存'，和'我会在那里'，达到了美国排行榜榜首;

而国际公认的'Thriller'的发布于1982年，成为红极一时取得了7前10名的名单中。该专辑售出2100万美国的副本，至少27万。这是一个在音乐史上不朽的时刻;

虽然迈克尔杰克逊被打成'的流行'，杰克逊的音乐是国际上公认的广受好评国王;

虽然迈克尔杰克逊是少数艺术家之一，已被纳入摇滚名人堂的两倍;

而在80年代初，迈克尔杰克逊成为流行音乐中举足轻重的人物和第一位非洲裔演员的积聚强大的交叉后在MTV。他的音乐，广开言路，如'在MTV，禁毒影片人气是'，'比莉珍'和'Thriller'，广泛地与从一个宣传工具，成为一种艺术形式的音乐视频存入促成相对较新的渠道，名利;

虽然，在84年1月10日，迈克尔杰克逊访问受害人烧伤布洛特曼在洛杉矶纪念医院的单位，并显示了他与严重伤害遭受苦难的人民的关注;

虽然，在1984年4月9日，大卫双龙一，一名14岁的囊性fibroses岁男童患有应邀到迈克尔的家中，以响应垂死要求会见迈克尔。大卫去世7周后;

虽然，在1984年4月14日，迈克尔杰克逊一手用于装备在纽约西奈山医疗中心19个床位的单位负责。这个中心现在是一个关键部分T.J.马爹利基金会白血病和癌症的研究;

虽然，在1984年7月5日，在杰克逊的旅舍按下绿色会议，迈克尔宣布，他从胜利巡回赛的收入的一部分将捐赠给三个慈善组织：联合黑人大学基金会，营好时代，和对TJ马爹利基金会;

虽然，在1984年7月14日，后胜利之旅首场音乐会，迈克尔会见8身患绝症的儿童的幕后黑手;

虽然，在1984年12月13日，迈克尔参观了布洛特曼纪念医院，在那里他受到的待遇时，他期间被焚毁生产百事可乐广告。随后，他所有的钱捐给他从百事可乐收到150万美元，到迈克尔杰克逊烧伤中心的儿童;

鉴于会见了1985年1月28日和44迈克尔其他艺术家记录'我们是世界'，迈克尔和梅西里奇，致力于对抗全球饥饿的项目写的。这个记录的收入捐赠给非洲饥民;

而在1986年，迈克尔成立了'迈克尔杰克逊1999年保护儿童连绵不断奖学基金'。这150亿美元的基金，目的是协助学生对表演艺术和通信专业，并给学生每年参加1999年保护儿童成员的学院或大学的钱;

虽然，在1986年2月28日，后有一个心脏移植，14岁，来自加利福尼亚州老唐娜Ashlock收到了迈克尔杰克逊的呼吁。他听说她是个迷。迈克尔邀请唐娜到他家后，她恢复;

虽然，在1987年9月13日，迈克尔支持反对种族主义运动。他在反对种族歧视的斗争，非洲尽一切努力公开支持有色人种协进会，美艺术家;

而在1987年10月，在结束他的'坏之旅'，迈克尔捐赠的个人物品，教科文组织为慈善拍卖。他捐赠的资金被用于资助发展中国家儿童的教育;

虽然，在1988年2月1日的歌'在镜子'人进入图表。从这个记录了直接的销售和良好的时代，谁的儿童患有癌症专门营营麦当劳的收益;

虽然，在1988年3月1日在记者招待会上他的赞助商百事可乐举行，迈克尔提出了60万美元的支票，联合黑人大学基金;

而在1988年4月，迈克尔杰克逊三个确保在亚特兰大音乐会免费门票，格鲁吉亚，是专门设置为许愿基金会撤销;

虽然，在1988年5月22日，迈克尔参观了癌症的班比尼灾区儿童格苏儿童在罗马医院。他的亲笔签名和赠送糖果和年轻患者的记录。他还宣布他一十点○○○万英镑货币捐赠到医院;

虽然，在1988年7月16日，迈克尔会见威尔士亲王和他的妻子戴安娜，他捐赠的王子信托十五点〇 〇 〇万磅，和10万英镑的儿童在大奥蒙德街医院检查;

鉴于7月20日，1988年，迈克尔参观了大奥蒙德街儿童医院绝症。在他下榻的时间较少，并在参与讲故事与孩子在一起的时间危重病人的单位;

虽然，在1988年8月29日，在他30岁生日的迈克尔进行慈善组织的英文'给有关在利兹，英国，音乐会生命'，作为儿童免疫慈善组织设计。迈克尔提出了六五○○○磅检查;

而在1989年1月的洛杉矶迈克尔的节目之一的收入都捐给了Childhelp美国，反对虐待儿童的最大慈善组织。在迈克尔，南加州Childhelp的贡献表示赞赏成立了'迈克尔杰克逊国际研究学院的虐儿';

虽然，在1989年1月10日，经结束了他的'坏之旅'，迈克尔杰克逊为每个捐赠贫困儿童音乐会门票，并提出，在每一个站，他参观医院，孤儿院，慈善组织的捐款;

虽然，在1989年2月7日，迈克尔参观了克里夫兰小学斯托克顿，加利福尼亚州，一个游乐场暴力的网站，5名儿童被惨遭杀害，39人受伤;

虽然，在1989年3月5日，迈克尔邀请200圣文森特残疾儿童研究所和组织的大哥哥大姐姐贫困儿童的马戏团巴尔加斯在圣巴巴拉。该事件之后，孩子们被邀请到他的农场参观Neverland农场，他的私人动物园;

而在1991年12月，迈克尔的办公室MJJ制作捐赠200多火鸡晚餐，在洛杉矶有需要的家庭;

而在1992年2月，11天内，包括在非洲迈克尔三点零零零万英里，访问医院，孤儿院，学校，教堂和机构弱智儿童;

虽然，在1992年2月3日，在纽约无线电城音乐厅新闻发布会上，迈克尔宣布，他正计划一个新的世界巡回演出，以提高他的新'拯救世界'基金会筹款。这个基金会的目的是支持防治艾滋病，青少年糖尿病，麦当劳叔叔营，并许愿基金会的斗争;

虽然，在1992年5月6日，迈克尔支付的拉蒙桑切斯，谁是在洛杉矶暴乱死亡的丧葬费;

虽然，在1992年6月26日，迈克尔提出了慕尼黑市长先生Kronawitter，并为城市困难群众40000马克检查;

而在1992年7月，迈克尔捐赠821477296里拉拉变奏曲德尔欧勒（匹配的心）在罗马，并捐赠了120,000马克在爱沙尼亚和拉脱维亚的儿童慈善机构;

鉴于，宣布1992年7月25日，他在都柏林，爱尔兰，迈克尔演唱会，他将给予40万英镑的旅游收入拨作慈善用途;

而在1993年6月，迈克尔宣布了一项125万美元，为因在洛杉矶的暴乱而遭受苦难的儿童捐赠;

鉴于1993年10月，迈克尔杰克逊捐了10万元的儿童保护基金会，儿童糖尿病基金会，亚特兰大项目，以及男孩和女孩的新泽西州纽瓦克俱乐部;

而在1993年12月，在与戈尔巴乔夫基金会，迈克尔杰克逊一起空运60000儿童的疫苗剂量，第比利斯，格鲁吉亚;

唯一为一

只是歌功颂德,结果呢?

MJ_Blanket

也好想学英语啊

我有兴趣，就能学好吗