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A resolution designating June 7, 2005, as "National Hunger Awareness Day" and authorizing that the Senate offices of Senators Gordon Smith, Blanche L. Lincoln, Elizabeth Dole, and Richard J. Durbin be used to collect donations of food from May 26, 2005, until June 7, 2005, from concerned Members of Congress and staff to assist families suffering from hunger and food insecurity in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Introduced: May 25, 2005 Introduced by: Durbin, Richard J. Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
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May 25, 2005
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5939-5940; text as passed Senate: CR S5939-5940; text of measure as introduced: CR S5938)
May 25, 2005
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S5939-5940; text as passed Senate: CR S5939-5940; text of measure as introduced: CR S5938)
May 25, 2005
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Designates June 7, 2005, as National Hunger Awareness Day.

Authorizes the offices of Senators Smith, Lincoln, Dole, and Durbin to collect donations of food from May 26, 2005, until June 7, 2005, from concerned Members of Congress and staff to assist families suffering from hunger and food insecurity in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

What's happening now May 25, 2005

Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5939-5940; text as passed Senate: CR S5939-5940; text of measure as introduced: CR S5938)