On the recordJuly 13, 2010
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3989 was introduced by Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis in November of 2009. Heart Mountain Relocation Center was one of 10 Japanese internment camps set up during World War II when anti-Japanese sentiment was running rampant following the attack on Pearl Harbor. At its peak, nearly 11,000 Japanese Americans who were forced from their communities in California, Washington and Oregon, were detained in Heart Mountain's tar-paper barracks. H.R. 3989 would direct the National Park Service to construct a special resource study to determine the national significance of Heart Mountain and the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System. Mr. Speaker, we support the passage of H.R. 3989. I reserve the balance of my time.
