Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
This bill designates a 26-mile segment of Interstate 17 in Arizona (milepost 237 to 263) as the Kayla Jean Mueller and Charles H. Keating IV Memorial Highway (commonly Mueller-Keating Memorial Highway).
Centrist concerns about precedent and use of congressional time
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a well-structured commemorative designation that clearly states purpose, identifies the segment to be named, and assigns modest administrative steps for implementation.
This bill designates a 26-mile segment of Interstate 17 in Arizona (milepost 237 to 263) as the Kayla Jean Mueller and Charles H.
Keating IV Memorial Highway (commonly Mueller-Keating Memorial Highway).
It includes congressional findings about the two honorees and directs the Secretary of Transportation, with state and local authorities, to permit honorary signage and memorialization at the Sunset Point Rest Area and to list the designation on the Department of Transportation website.
Honorary, localized designation with no budgetary or policy effects; such bills commonly clear committee and both chambers absent unrelated objections.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a well-structured commemorative designation that clearly states purpose, identifies the segment to be named, and assigns modest administrative steps for implementation.
Centrist concerns about precedent and use of congressional time
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Centrist concerns about precedent and use of congressional time
Generally supportive of honoring a humanitarian aid worker and a service member who died confronting ISIS; views the bipartisan memorialization as a recognition of both humanitarian service and sacrifice.
May be attentive to whether this reinforces militaristic narratives, but notes the bill explicitly honors both compassion and military service.
Likes that the bill is narrowly focused, symbolic, and low-cost.
Will weigh benefits of public recognition against precedent of federal honorary namings and prefer state coordination to avoid costs or redundancy.
Strongly supportive of honoring a U.S. Navy SEAL killed in action and an Arizonan humanitarian victim of ISIS; sees it as appropriate recognition of valor and sacrifice while opposing new federal spending.
Appreciates emphasis on defeating ISIS.
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Honorary, localized designation with no budgetary or policy effects; such bills commonly clear committee and both chambers absent unrelated objections.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Centrist concerns about precedent and use of congressional time
Honorary, localized designation with no budgetary or policy effects; such bills commonly clear committee and both chambers absent unrelated…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a well-structured commemorative designation that clearly states purpose, identifies the segment to be named, and assigns modest administrative steps for implementa…
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