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PUBLIC LAW 96-231—APR. 8, 1980 Public Law 96-231 96th Congress

y? Joint Resolution

Apr. 8, 1980 [S.J. Res. 131]

Designating April 10, 1980, as "CRT Centennial Day".

Whereas the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT) has historically been the earliest pioneer in the use of systematic vocational and technical training as a strategy to banish deprivation and economic backwardness; and Whereas the ORT has provided productive channels for human advancement through the acquisition of skills for livelihood at times and places where such programs were nonexistent; and Whereas the ORT has assisted almost two million people in more than forty countries on five continents, thereby becoming the biggest nongovernmental voluntary program of vocational and job training in the world; and Whereas the ORT has become part of the array of ongoing services that are essential to communities, as evidenced by the rapid development of technical training programs and educational institutions in many countries, including Argentina, Iran, Peru, and India, and by the continuing enrichment of the quality of educational services throughout Latin America; and Whereas the ORT has provided assistance needed for the assimilation of hundreds of thousands of north African Jews by the French community, and for the migration and resettlement process of Soviet Jewish refugees; and Whereas the ORT has been the means for the development of Israel's human resources and has provided the training for a msgor portion of Israel's skilled labor force: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United CRT Centennial States of America in Congress assembled, That April 10, 1980, is no^.rnafmn dcslgnated as "ORT Centennial Day"; and the President is authorDesignation. ized and requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to salute the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training on its one-hundredth anniversary in recognition of its accomplishments. Approved April 8, 1980.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: SENATE REPORT No. 96-622 (Comm. on the Judiciary). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 126 (1980): Mar. 18, considered and passed Senate. Apr. 1, considered and passed House.

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