The bald eagle is officially America's national bird after Biden's signature
Source: NBC News
Dec. 24, 2024, 6:45 PM EST
The bald eagle has landed in U.S. Code as President Joe Biden signed a bill Tuesday making the predator the official national bird
Congress passed the measure with unanimous support.
Although the bird of prey is at the center of the Great Seal of the United States, it was never formally recognized as the country's official bird. Some of the countrys founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, were tasked with creating a national seal but simply couldn't come to an agreement.
So in 1782, a version of the seal with a bald eagle was submitted by Secretary of the Continental Congress Charles Thomson and approved. Most Americans are familiar with the seal's eagle carrying a flag-emblazoned shield holding an olive branch in one talon and arrows in the other.
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a kennedy
(32,320 posts)Well bout gawd damn time then .thanks POTUS Joe Biden.
Evolve Dammit
(19,054 posts)cstanleytech
(27,174 posts)IronLionZion
(47,113 posts)GreenWave
(9,440 posts)Evolve Dammit
(19,054 posts)littlemissmartypants
(25,867 posts)I personally, hope that a flock of buzzards gets the honor.
electric_blue68
(18,685 posts)Paladin
(28,971 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,485 posts)littlemissmartypants
(25,867 posts)Write an executive order, On DaY oNE, to reverse the law.
lonely bird
(1,965 posts)Dont really care.
Great that the eagle is looked after from an environmental standpoint.
Beyond that?
BumRushDaShow
(144,169 posts)elleng
(136,819 posts)Polybius
(18,352 posts)And the House and Senate vote was unanimous! Good, because you'd have to be an anti-American to vote against this bill.
Evolve Dammit
(19,054 posts)Igel
(36,229 posts)accept that the eagle wasn't the national symbol and then draft and present the legislation.
The credit really shouldn't go to the inspector's stamp but to the craftsman.
Thank you, Mr. Cook.
Floyd R. Turbo
(29,204 posts)Sneederbunk
(15,389 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(29,204 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,825 posts)Maybe a dyed, combed-over, blow-dried, hairsprayed eagle. That would be the baddest eagle in history.