HRES 49
108th Congress
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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon, all of whom died in the destruction of the space shuttle Columbia.
Introduced: February 4, 2003
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Feb 28, 2003
Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
Feb 4, 2003
Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
Feb 4, 2003
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Calls for the President to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the astronauts who died in the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia: Rick Husband; William McCool; Michael Anderson; Kalpana Chawla; David Brown; Laurel Clark; and Ilan Ramon.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
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