BILL REQ. #: S-3760.1
| State of Washington | 63rd Legislature | 2014 Regular Session |
TO THE HONORABLE LYNN PETERSON, SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION, AND TO
THE WASHINGTON STATE TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, AND TO THE WASHINGTON
STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION:
We, your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of
the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully
represent and petition as follows:
WHEREAS, Thomas Stephen "Tom" Foley, a native of Spokane,
Washington, served in the United States House of Representatives for
thirty years representing the 5th Congressional District from 1965 to
1995; and
WHEREAS, Thomas Stephen Foley became the 57th Speaker of the House
of Representatives from 1989 to 1995, and has the distinction of being
the first Speaker of the House of Representatives from a state west of
the Rocky Mountains; and
WHEREAS, Before joining the United States House of Representatives,
Thomas Stephen Foley taught at Gonzaga Law School from 1958 to 1959 and
joined the Office of the Washington State Attorney General in 1960; and
WHEREAS, Thomas Stephen Foley was appointed as the 25th United
States Ambassador to Japan by President Bill Clinton and served as
ambassador from 1997 to 2001; and
WHEREAS, Thomas Stephen Foley was awarded the Washington State
Medal of Merit in 2003 by Governor Gary Locke; and
WHEREAS, State route number 395 between the Tri-Cities and
Ritzville was expanded to four lanes with the support of Thomas Stephen
Foley, and the expansion of state route number 395 has increased safety
and expedited the movement of people and freight between the two
largest population centers in eastern Washington;
NOW, THEREFORE, Your Memorialists respectfully pray that the
Washington State Transportation Commission commence proceedings to name
state route number 395, beginning at the junction with state route
number 397 in the vicinity of Pasco, thence in a northerly direction to
the junction with Interstate 90, as the Thomas Stephen "Tom" Foley
Memorial Highway to honor his service to Washington state.
BE IT RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be immediately
transmitted to the Honorable Lynn Peterson, Secretary of
Transportation, the Washington State Transportation Commission, and the
Washington State Department of Transportation.