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A bill to posthumously award a Congressional Gold Medal, in commemoration of the service members who perished as a result of the attack in Afghanistan on August 26, 2021, during the evacuation of…
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Sep 15, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Sep 15, 2021
Introduced in Senate
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This bill posthumously provides for the award of a Congressional Gold Medal in commemoration of the 13 service members who died on August 26, 2021, while stationed at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
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56
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Graham, Lindsey
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Lee, Mike
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Warnock, Raphael G.
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Cornyn, John
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Murphy, Christopher
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Tillis, Thomas
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Cantwell, Maria
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Cassidy, Bill
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Fischer, Deb
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Kennedy, John
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Cotton, Tom
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Cruz, Ted
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Ernst, Joni
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Johnson, Ron
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Rounds, Mike
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Tuberville, Tommy
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Cortez Masto, Catherine
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Hawley, Josh
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Kelly, Mark
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Klobuchar, Amy
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Moran, Jerry
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Murray, Patty
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Peters, Gary C.
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Scott, Tim
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Wicker, Roger F.
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Wyden, Ron
D
Baldwin, Tammy
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Barrasso, John
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Bennet, Michael F.
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Blackburn, Marsha
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Blumenthal, Richard
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Capito, Shelley Moore
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Cramer, Kevin
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Crapo, Mike
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Hagerty, Bill
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Hassan, Margaret Wood
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Hickenlooper, John W.
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Hoeven, John
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Hyde-Smith, Cindy
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Kaine, Tim
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Lankford, James
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Lummis, Cynthia M.
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Markey, Edward J.
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Marshall, Roger
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Padilla, Alex
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Risch, James E.
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Rosen, Jacky
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Sanders, Bernard
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Scott, Rick
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Shaheen, Jeanne
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2756: A bill to posthumously award a Congressional Gold Medal, in commemoration of the service members who perished as a result of the attack in Afghanistan on August 26, 2021, during the evacuation of citizens of the United States and Afghan allies at Hamid Karzai International Airport, and for other purposes.. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-2756/
"S. 2756: A bill to posthumously award a Congressional Gold Medal, in commemoration of the service members who perished as a result of the attack in Afghanistan on August 26, 2021, during the evacuation of citizens of the United States and Afghan allies at Hamid Karzai International Airport, and for other purposes.." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-2756/.
S. 2756, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-2756/.
[S. 2756: A bill to posthumously award a Congressional Gold Medal, in commemoration of the service members who perished as a result of the attack in Afghanistan on August 26, 2021, during the evacuation of citizens of the United States and Afghan allies at Hamid Karzai International Airport, and for other purposes.](https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-2756/)