S 2408
106th Congress
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Honoring the Navajo Code Talkers Act
Introduced: April 12, 2000
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Apr 12, 2000
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2620-2621)
Apr 12, 2000
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2619-2620)
Apr 12, 2000
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Honoring the Navajo Code Talkers Act - Authorizes the President to: (1) present to each of the original twenty-nine Navajo Code Talkers or a surviving family member, on behalf of Congress, a gold medal honoring the Navajo Code Talkers; and (2) award to each man who qualified as a Navajo Code Talker (MOS 642) or a surviving family member a silver medal. Provides that such medals are to express recognition by the United States and its citizens in honoring the Navajo Code Talkers who distinguished themselves in performing a unique, highly successful communications operation that greatly assisted in saving countless lives and in hastening the end of World War II in the Pacific.
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell bronze duplicates.
Authorizes appropriations.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2620-2621)
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