Whereas, on February 9, 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed a Joint Resolution of Congress requiring the Secretary of War to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent, and at other points in the States and Territories . . . and for giving notice on the northern lakes and on the seacoast, by magnetic telegraph and marine signals, of the approach and force of storms thereby creating the United States Army Signal Service’s Division of Telegrams and Reports for the Benefit of Commerce; Whereas, on October 1, 1890, President Benjamin Harrison signed Senate Bill S. 1454, transferring the meteorological responsibilities of the Signal Service to the Department of Agriculture, and is thus known as the Weather Service’s first organic Act; Whereas the Weather Bureau began operations on July 1, 1891; Whereas in response to the important role the Weather Bureau played in the burgeoning aviation and commercial community, President Franklin D. Roosevelt transferred the Weather Bureau to the Department of Commerce in 1940; Whereas with the enactment of the National Environmental Policy Act, the Weather Bureau was renamed the National Weather Service and made a component of the new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on October 5, 1970; Whereas with the enactment of the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017, and its partial reauthorization in 2019, Congress reaffirmed and emboldened the critical mission of NOAA’s National Weather Service, including the provision of impact-based decision support services to core partners; and Whereas, in 2020, the National Weather Service celebrates 150 years protecting lives and property and enhancing the Nation’s economy, an enduring mission it retains to this day: Now, therefore be it