Expressing support for the recognition of the month of September 2024 as "Boat People Awareness Month" to honor the hundreds of thousands of boat people who fled Vietnam's oppressive Communist regime during the decades following the Vietnam war.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] [Congressional Bills 118th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H. Res. 1477 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 1477 Expressing support for the recognition of the month of September 2024 as ``Boat People Awareness Month'' to honor the hundreds of thousands of boat people who fled Vietnam's oppressive Communist regime during the decades following the Vietnam war. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 19, 2024 Mrs. Steel submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability _______________________________________________________________________ RESOLUTION Expressing support for the recognition of the month of September 2024 as ``Boat People Awareness Month'' to honor the hundreds of thousands of boat people who fled Vietnam's oppressive Communist regime during the decades following the Vietnam war. Whereas the term ``boat people'' is used to refer to the Vietnamese people who fled the oppressive Communist regime between 1975 and 1995, in which almost 800,000 people left Vietnam by boat to arrive safely in…