Congressman Mac Thornberry (R-Clarendon) voted this week to approe the designation of a national landmark in Kansas.
On Monday, Thornberry joined an almost unanimous U.S. House of Representatives in voting to designate an existing memorial at the National Teachers Hall of Fame in Emporia, Kansas as the "National Memorial to Fallen Educators." The vote did not make the memorial part of the federal parks systems and did not require federal funds for the designation, according to the bill's listing on www.congress.gov.
The U.S. House voted 384-1 to approve the designation. Congressman Justin Amash (R-Michigan) was the sole vote against the Senate Bill. 44 members of the U.S. House were not in attendance for Monday's vote.
