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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Feb 10, 2025
Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025
This bill authorizes the President to enter into negotiations with the government of Denmark to purchase or otherwise acquire Greenland. The bill also renames Greenland as Red, White, and Blueland.
People & committees
Rep. Carter, Earl L. "Buddy" [R-GA-1] · R–GA
Legislative record
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Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-02-10 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
This proposal would authorize the President to negotiate with Denmark to buy or otherwise acquire Greenland. It would also rename Greenland “Red, White, and Blueland” in U.S. legal references and records, requiring federal agencies to update their documents and maps within 180 days of enactment. Authorizing negotiations would not itself complete an acquisition.
The President is authorized to enter into negotiations with the Government of Denmark to purchase or otherwise acquire Greenland.
(a) Renaming Greenland shall be known as Red, White, and Blueland. (b) References Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to Greenland shall be deemed to be a reference to Red, White, and Blueland.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this section, the head of each Federal agency shall update each document and map of the Federal agency in accordance with the renaming described in subsection (a).
Section 1 would give the legislation the short title “Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025.”
This Act may be cited as the Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025.
Section 2 would permit, but would not require, the President to negotiate with Denmark's government to purchase or otherwise acquire Greenland.
The President is authorized to enter into negotiations with the Government of Denmark to purchase or otherwise acquire Greenland.
Section 3 would rename Greenland “Red, White, and Blueland” and treat existing references to Greenland in U.S. laws, maps, regulations, documents, papers, and other records as references to that new name.
(a) Renaming Greenland shall be known as Red, White, and Blueland. (b) References Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to Greenland shall be deemed to be a reference to Red, White, and Blueland.
The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Chairman of the Board on Geographic Names, would oversee the renaming in every federal document and map.
The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Chairman of the Board on Geographic Names, shall oversee the implementation of the renaming described in subsection (a) with respect to each Federal document and map.
Each federal agency head would have to update every agency document and map to reflect the new name within 180 days after Section 3 became law.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this section, the head of each Federal agency shall update each document and map of the Federal agency in accordance with the renaming described in subsection (a).
The supplied official-actions snapshot, updated October 9, 2025, records introduction in the House on February 10, 2025, and referral that day to the Foreign Affairs and Natural Resources committees for provisions within their respective jurisdictions.
Source snapshot updated 2025-10-09T00:11:25Z.
2025-02-10: Introduced in House
2025-02-10: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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