By J. Taylor Rushing
A bill to rename the Department of the Navy is quickly catching on in the Senate, but faces staunch opposition from Armed Services Committee leaders.
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), a former Marine and the sponsor of the bill in the upper chamber, has convinced 79 senators to sign on the measure he introduced in late February.
The Marine Corps Identity Bill is picking up tremendous support in the U.S Senate. As of today, 61 senators have co-sponsored S. 504.
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The bill, S. 504, proposes to change the name of the Department of the Navy to the “Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.” The House version of the bill unanimously passed. In order to become law, though, it must pass the Senate.
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U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, a former Marine, today urged colleagues to recognize the service and sacrifice of the Marine Corps by redesignating the Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and the Marine Corps.
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The American Legion is taking a poll today on whether [...]
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Yesterday, the Marine Corps Identity Bill, HR 24, unanimously passed the House after receiving 426 co-sponsors. This is the most co-sponsors of any bill in the history of the Congress! But its companion bill, S. 504, still has to pass the Senate.
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What’s in a name? Well if you are the Marine Corps a name means recognition and equal footing with the other branches of the armed forces.
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The Marine Corps Identity Bill, HR 24, has received 400 co-sponsors—92 percent of the House of Representatives.
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Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia has become the newest co-sponsor of S. 504.
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The Marines never get overlooked when it’s time to fight a war. But somehow they got left at the dock when the Department of the Navy was christened.
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been on the front lines drumming up support for MarineCause and our effort to give the Marine Corps equal recognition with the Navy.
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Sgt Shaft from the Washington Times supports the Marine Corps Identity Cause.
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For eight years, U.S. Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) has introduced legislation for a change. For eight years, his bills have stalled.
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Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, a Marine veteran, has introduced S.504, a companion bill to HR 24 that would change the name of the Department of the Navy to the “Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.”
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R. Lee Ermey speaks candidly about why he has chosen to act as spokesperson for the Marine Corps Identity Cause, while at the rally at Bullfeathers of Capitol Hill on Feb 25, 2010.
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R. Lee Ermey and the Marine Corps League held a successful press conference and rally Feb. 25 in Washington D.C. Hundreds of attendees came to support the Marine Corps Identity Cause
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Retired Gunnery Sgt. R. Lee Ermey, widely known for his performance as the sadistic drill instructor in the 1987 film “Full Metal Jacket,” headlined a Thursday news conference in Washington, D.C., calling to rename the Department of the Navy the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.
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