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Senate committee advances Vietnamese American Remembrance Day after heated debate over wording
Summary
The Rules Committee agreed to advance House Concurrent Resolution 34 memorializing April 30 as Vietnamese American Remembrance Day but debate surfaced over language honoring U.S. and South Vietnamese military motives; one senator sought an amendment to remove that clause and voted against the base resolution in committee.
The Oregon Senate Rules Committee moved House Concurrent Resolution 34 to the floor by recorded vote after extended testimony and a notable exchange among senators over the resolution's language about motivations for U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Representative Daniel Nguyen, sponsor of HCR 34, told the committee the resolution "designates 04/30/2025 as Vietnamese American Remembrance Day" and framed the measure as personal: he described his family's flight from Vietnam in 1975 and asked the Senate to "pass this resolution and allow us to be able to have this resolution, to be able to remind us of what we've been through and what we look…
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