Emanuel Cleaver: “I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as…”

“I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Negro Leagues Baseball Centennial Commemorative Coin Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. The Congress finds the following: (1) The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Negro National League, a professional baseball league formed in response to African-American players being banned from the major leagues. (2) On February 13, 1920, Andrew ``Rube'' Foster convened a meeting of 8 independent African-American baseball team owners at the Paseo YMCA in Kansas City, Missouri, to form a ``league of their own,'' establishing the Negro National League, the first successful, organized professional African- American baseball league in the United States. (3) Soon, additional leagues formed in eastern and southern States. (4) The Negro Leagues would operate for 40 years until 1960. (5) The story of the Negro Leagues is a story of strong- willed athletes who forged a glorious history in the midst of an inglorious era of segregation in the United States. (6) The passion of the Negro Leagues players for the ``National Pastime'' would not only change the game, but also the United States.…”