BILL REQ. #:  S-3760.1 



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SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 8013
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State of Washington63rd Legislature2014 Regular Session

By Senators Hobbs, King, and Eide

  



     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.

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