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A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or in the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which…
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Feb 27, 2015
Held at the desk.
Feb 27, 2015
Received in the House.
Feb 27, 2015
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Feb 26, 2015
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1137-1138; text as passed Senate: CR S1137)
Feb 26, 2015
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S1137-1138; text as passed Senate: CR S1137)
Feb 24, 2015
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 24.
Feb 24, 2015
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Reported by Senator Shelby without amendment. Without written report.
Feb 24, 2015
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Feb 12, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Feb 12, 2015
Introduced in Senate
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(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate reported version is repeated here.)
(Sec. 2) This bill directs the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March during March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
(Sec. 4) The medals struck pursuant to this Act are national medals.
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Fischer, Deb
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Markey, Edward J.
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Rounds, Mike
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Warner, Mark R.
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Baldwin, Tammy
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Barrasso, John
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Bennet, Michael F.
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Blumenthal, Richard
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Booker, Cory A.
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Capito, Shelley Moore
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Collins, Susan M.
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Coons, Christopher A.
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Cornyn, John
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Cotton, Tom
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Cruz, Ted
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Daines, Steve
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Durbin, Richard J.
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Gillibrand, Kirsten E.
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Heinrich, Martin
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Hirono, Mazie K.
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Hoeven, John
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Johnson, Ron
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Kaine, Tim
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Klobuchar, Amy
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McConnell, Mitch
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Merkley, Jeff
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Murkowski, Lisa
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Murphy, Christopher
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Murray, Patty
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Peters, Gary C.
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Reed, Jack
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Risch, James E.
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Sanders, Bernard
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Schatz, Brian
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Schumer, Charles E.
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Scott, Tim
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Shaheen, Jeanne
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Thune, John
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Warren, Elizabeth
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Whitehouse, Sheldon
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Wicker, Roger F.
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Wyden, Ron
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 527: A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or in the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-527/
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