Full Text of HR0435 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, President Obama recently nominated Penny Pritzker | 3 | | to his cabinet for the position of U.S. Secretary
of Commerce; | 4 | | and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, In his nomination address, President Obama | 6 | | praised Penny Pritzker as one of our country's most
| 7 | | distinguished business leaders, stating that she knows from | 8 | | experience that no government program alone can take the place | 9 | | of a great
entrepreneur; he further stated that she understands | 10 | | that just as great companies strengthen the
community around | 11 | | them, strong communities and skilled workers also help | 12 | | companies thrive; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Penny Pritzker is an extraordinary civic and | 14 | | business leader who has more than 25 years of
management | 15 | | experience in industries including real estate, finance, and | 16 | | hospitality; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, President Obama previously appointed Penny | 18 | | Pritzker to the President's Council for Jobs and
| 19 | | Competitiveness, which advises the administration on economic | 20 | | growth and job creation; she
also served on the President's | 21 | | Economic Recovery Board to advise the administration on
| 22 | | rebuilding the economy after the national recession; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Penny Pritzker is a board member of the Council on | 2 | | Foreign Relations to help contribute ideas to
U.S. foreign | 3 | | policy based on global trends; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, Penny Pritzker focused much of her civic work on | 5 | | public education; she is the advisory board
chairman of Skills | 6 | | for America's Future, which brings together businesses and | 7 | | community
colleges to create greater opportunities for | 8 | | students and prepare workers for 21st century jobs; and | 9 | | WHEREAS, Penny Pritzker is the past chair of the Chicago | 10 | | Public Education Fund to raise private equity funds
to invest | 11 | | in public schools; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, As co-founder and co-director of The Pritzker | 13 | | Traubert Family Foundation, Penny Pritzker
worked to fund | 14 | | innovative initiatives in the City of Chicago to strengthen | 15 | | school leadership and
improve public education, especially for | 16 | | children in impoverished communities; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, Penny Pritzker, in an effort to empower young | 18 | | women, was a founding board member of the
Young Women's | 19 | | Leadership Charter School which seeks to ensure that young | 20 | | women have the
skills, tools, and opportunities to develop as | 21 | | ethical leaders shaping their lives and the world; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Penny Pritzker earned a bachelor of arts in | 2 | | economics at Harvard University, where she also
enrolled in | 3 | | fine arts courses and developed a passion and appreciation for | 4 | | the history of art and
architecture; she is the former chairman | 5 | | of the board of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary
Art and | 6 | | currently serves as a trustee for the John F. Kennedy Center | 7 | | for the Performing Arts, and
is a newly elected member of the | 8 | | American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Penny Pritzker earned her juris doctor and masters | 10 | | in business administration at Stanford
University, where she | 11 | | trained for and ran the Ironman Triathlon; she serves on the | 12 | | board of
trustees at Stanford University, a world-class | 13 | | research and teaching institution; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, After completing her education, Penny Pritzker | 15 | | entered the family business and paved the way for
women both in | 16 | | her family and in the business world; having founded 5 | 17 | | businesses during her
career, she has continued to give back to | 18 | | the community; a devoted wife and mother of 2
children, she is | 19 | | a Chicago native who has devoted her career to giving back to | 20 | | the
community; she maintains that throughout all of her success | 21 | | in business, she is most proud of her
philanthropic efforts and | 22 | | relationship with her family; therefore, be it
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 2 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 3 | | we commend Penny Pritzker for her selfless efforts in improving | 4 | | the lives of others and congratulate her on her nomination for | 5 | | the position of U.S. Secretary of
Commerce; and be it further
| 6 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 7 | | presented to Penny Pritzker as an expression of our esteem and | 8 | | respect.
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