Full Text of HR0850 94th General Assembly
HR0850 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, In March of 2006 an historic event will take place | 3 |
| in the South American nation of Chile as Michelle Bachelet, the | 4 |
| first elected female president, is inaugurated; and
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| WHEREAS, Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria was born in | 6 |
| Santiago on September 29, 1951, the second child of an air | 7 |
| force officer who rose to a general's rank and a housewife who | 8 |
| became an archaeologist; her early years were spent in the | 9 |
| restrictive but sheltering environment of the Chilean Armed | 10 |
| Forces, moving from one military base to another around the | 11 |
| country; and
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| WHEREAS, During her teenage years, her father was assigned | 13 |
| to the Chilean Embassy in Washington, D.C., and she lived in | 14 |
| Bethesda, Maryland, where she attended middle school, learned | 15 |
| to speak English fluently, and developed a lifelong love of pop | 16 |
| and folk music; and
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| WHEREAS, The family returned to Chile where she attended | 18 |
| college, but during the Pinochet dictatorship, which led to her | 19 |
| father's death, she and her mother were tortured and then | 20 |
| exiled; while in exile, she studied medicine at Humboldt | 21 |
| University in East Berlin; upon their return to Chile, she | 22 |
| finished medical school, specializing in pediatrics and public | 23 |
| health; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1994, after having worked in AIDS and | 25 |
| epidemiological programs, she became an adviser to the Ministry | 26 |
| of Health; she went on to study at the Inter-American Defense | 27 |
| College in Washington, D.C., and after her return, she went to | 28 |
| work in the Defense Ministry and was also elected to the | 29 |
| political commission of the Socialist Party, specializing in | 30 |
| defense and military issues; and
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| WHEREAS, She was then appointed by current president, | 2 |
| Ricardo Lagos, to lead the Defense Ministry, becoming the first | 3 |
| woman to hold that post; her election as president makes her | 4 |
| the first woman to be elected president of Chile and the first | 5 |
| woman president in South America who didn't rise on the | 6 |
| political power of her husband; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 8 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 9 |
| together with the Conference of Women Legislators, we | 10 |
| congratulate Michelle Bachelet on being the first elected | 11 |
| female president of Chile; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 13 |
| presented to President-Elect Bachelet as an expression of our | 14 |
| esteem and with our best wishes for her term in office.
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