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A bill to authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Mrs. Yaffa Eliach in recognition of her outstanding and enduring contributions toward scholarship about the…

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A bill to authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Mrs. Yaffa Eliach in recognition of her outstanding and enduring contributions toward scholarship about the Holocaust, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 8, 1999 Introduced by: Schumer, Charles E. Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking.
Mar 8, 1999
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Authorizes the President to present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal to Yaffa Eliach in recognition of her outstanding and enduring contributions toward scholarship about the Holocaust. Authorizes appropriations.

Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell bronze duplicates.

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 561: A bill to authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Mrs. Yaffa Eliach in recognition of her outstanding and enduring contributions toward scholarship about the Holocaust, and for other purposes.. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-S-561/
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"S. 561: A bill to authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Mrs. Yaffa Eliach in recognition of her outstanding and enduring contributions toward scholarship about the Holocaust, and for other purposes.." 106th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/106-S-561/.
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S. 561, 106th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/106-S-561/.
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