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“Mr. Speaker, H.R. 988 amends the congressional charter for the National Woman's Relief Corps. In 1883, the National Woman's Relief Corps was founded as an auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. This nonprofit organization was founded to perpetuate the memory of those who sacrificed much, and sometimes all, in the American Civil War. Today, the National Woman's Relief Corps provides assistance to veterans of all wars and their families. In 1962, Congress granted the corps a congressional charter under title 36 of the U.S. Code. Congressional charters often stipulate an organization's place of incorporation and corporate domicile. In the case of the National Woman's Relief Corps, their charter requires that the organization be incorporated and domiciled in Washington, D.C. Due to changes in the organization over the years, the corps would like to move its domicile to Illinois, and this bill does just that. H.R. 988 amends the corps' congressional charter to formally change the organization's place of incorporation and domicile from Washington, D.C., to Illinois. The bill further amends the charter by moving the location of the organization's headquarters to Murphysboro, Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time.”