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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, President Obama recently nominated Penny Pritzker | ||||||
3 | to his cabinet for the position of U.S. Secretary
of Commerce; | ||||||
4 | and
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5 | WHEREAS, In his nomination address, President Obama | ||||||
6 | praised Penny Pritzker as one of our country's most
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7 | distinguished business leaders, stating that she knows from | ||||||
8 | experience that no government program alone can take the place | ||||||
9 | of a great
entrepreneur; he further stated that she understands | ||||||
10 | that just as great companies strengthen the
community around | ||||||
11 | them, strong communities and skilled workers also help | ||||||
12 | companies thrive; and
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13 | WHEREAS, Penny Pritzker is an extraordinary civic and | ||||||
14 | business leader who has more than 25 years of
management | ||||||
15 | experience in industries including real estate, finance, and | ||||||
16 | hospitality; and | ||||||
17 | WHEREAS, President Obama previously appointed Penny | ||||||
18 | Pritzker to the President's Council for Jobs and
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19 | Competitiveness, which advises the administration on economic | ||||||
20 | growth and job creation; she
also served on the President's | ||||||
21 | Economic Recovery Board to advise the administration on
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22 | rebuilding the economy after the national recession; and |
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1 | WHEREAS, Penny Pritzker is a board member of the Council on | ||||||
2 | Foreign Relations to help contribute ideas to
U.S. foreign | ||||||
3 | policy based on global trends; and | ||||||
4 | WHEREAS, Penny Pritzker focused much of her civic work on | ||||||
5 | public education; she is the advisory board
chairman of Skills | ||||||
6 | for America's Future, which brings together businesses and | ||||||
7 | community
colleges to create greater opportunities for | ||||||
8 | students and prepare workers for 21st century jobs; and | ||||||
9 | WHEREAS, Penny Pritzker is the past chair of the Chicago | ||||||
10 | Public Education Fund to raise private equity funds
to invest | ||||||
11 | in public schools; and | ||||||
12 | WHEREAS, As co-founder and co-director of The Pritzker | ||||||
13 | Traubert Family Foundation, Penny Pritzker
worked to fund | ||||||
14 | innovative initiatives in the City of Chicago to strengthen | ||||||
15 | school leadership and
improve public education, especially for | ||||||
16 | children in impoverished communities; and | ||||||
17 | WHEREAS, Penny Pritzker, in an effort to empower young | ||||||
18 | women, was a founding board member of the
Young Women's | ||||||
19 | Leadership Charter School which seeks to ensure that young | ||||||
20 | women have the
skills, tools, and opportunities to develop as | ||||||
21 | ethical leaders shaping their lives and the world; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Penny Pritzker earned a bachelor of arts in | ||||||
2 | economics at Harvard University, where she also
enrolled in | ||||||
3 | fine arts courses and developed a passion and appreciation for | ||||||
4 | the history of art and
architecture; she is the former chairman | ||||||
5 | of the board of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary
Art and | ||||||
6 | currently serves as a trustee for the John F. Kennedy Center | ||||||
7 | for the Performing Arts, and
is a newly elected member of the | ||||||
8 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and
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9 | WHEREAS, Penny Pritzker earned her juris doctor and masters | ||||||
10 | in business administration at Stanford
University, where she | ||||||
11 | trained for and ran the Ironman Triathlon; she serves on the | ||||||
12 | board of
trustees at Stanford University, a world-class | ||||||
13 | research and teaching institution; and
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14 | WHEREAS, After completing her education, Penny Pritzker | ||||||
15 | entered the family business and paved the way for
women both in | ||||||
16 | her family and in the business world; having founded 5 | ||||||
17 | businesses during her
career, she has continued to give back to | ||||||
18 | the community; a devoted wife and mother of 2
children, she is | ||||||
19 | a Chicago native who has devoted her career to giving back to | ||||||
20 | the
community; she maintains that throughout all of her success | ||||||
21 | in business, she is most proud of her
philanthropic efforts and | ||||||
22 | relationship with her family; therefore, be it
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1 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
2 | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
3 | we commend Penny Pritzker for her selfless efforts in improving | ||||||
4 | the lives of others and congratulate her on her nomination for | ||||||
5 | the position of U.S. Secretary of
Commerce; and be it further
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6 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
7 | presented to Penny Pritzker as an expression of our esteem and | ||||||
8 | respect.
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