Honoring the tremendous effort undertaken by the good people of Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas, and surrounding communities in getting the heartland ready for the World Cup.
Summary
What This Resolution Does
This House resolution would honor the work of Kansas City and surrounding communities in Missouri and Kansas to prepare for the World Cup. It recognizes the difficulty and scale of organizing a global event and commends the local people and institutions that helped create an environment capable of hosting it.
The resolution specifically recognizes small businesses, sports teams, schools, volunteers, public officials, and the broader communities for welcoming international visitors. It also affirms a policy preference that major global events in the United States should not always be concentrated in the country's largest metropolitan areas.
As a simple House resolution, the measure is ceremonial and nonbinding. It does not appropriate money, reimburse World Cup preparation costs, award a grant or contract, designate a future host city, require an agency to act, change security responsibilities, or create a legal benefit for Kansas City or any named participant.
Who Benefits and How
Kansas City-area residents, small businesses, teams, schools, volunteers, and officials would receive formal recognition from the House. The region could gain symbolic visibility as a host for an international sporting event, and smaller metropolitan areas could gain a congressional statement supporting more geographically varied event hosting. These are reputational and civic benefits only; the resolution supplies no funding or enforceable preference.
Who Bears the Burden and How
No person, business, school, team, local government, or Federal agency is required to comply with the resolution, and it imposes no penalty, reporting duty, or direct cost. Any remaining World Cup planning, security, transportation, hospitality, or public-service costs arise from separate event arrangements and government decisions, not from this measure.
Key Provisions
- Establishes formal House recognition for Kansas City-area World Cup preparation.
- Provides commendation for local residents and surrounding communities.
- Recognizes the difficulty of organizing a major global sporting event.
- Provides recognition to small businesses, teams, schools, volunteers, and officials.
- Affirms a nonbinding preference for hosting global events beyond American megacities.
- Creates no funding, procurement, host-city, or operational requirement.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Honor Kansas City-area communities and local participants for preparing to welcome the World Cup and affirm congressional support for hosting global events outside the largest American cities.
Key Policy Areas
Sports, Community Recognition, Small Business, Local Government
Primary Purpose
Honor Kansas City-area communities and local participants for preparing to welcome the World Cup and affirm congressional support for hosting global events outside the largest American cities.
Policy Domains
Resolution text - ceremonial World Cup preparation recognition
Identified Gains
- Kansas City-area residents preparing for the World Cup
- Kansas City small businesses supporting the event
- Kansas City schools supporting event preparation
- World Cup preparation volunteers
- Local officials coordinating World Cup readiness
Identified Costs
- Local event planners under separate World Cup arrangements
- Kansas City public-service staff under separate event arrangements
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Submitted in House
Mr. Alford (for himself, Mr. Mann, Mr. Bell, and Mr. …
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "house"
- → House of Representatives
- "communities"
- → Kansas City and surrounding Missouri and Kansas communities
- "participants"
- → Small businesses, teams, schools, volunteers, and officials
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