2023-2024 Regular Session • US Congress Legislature
SB4988: Defenders of Bataan, Corregidor, and Attu Congressional Gold Medal Act
Legislative Summary
A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to the individuals who fought for or with the United States against the armed forces of Imperial Japan in the Pacific theater and the impacted Saskinax people on Attu, whose lives, culture, and community were irrevocably changed from December 8, 1941, to August 15, 1945.
Bill History
8/1/2024
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Senate
Status Information
Current Status
Introduced(8/1/2024)
Chamber
Senate
Committee
Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs(Senate)
Sponsors
Democrat: 30
Republican: 3
Independent: 1
Primary Sponsor
Martin Heinrich
Democrat
Co-Sponsors (33)
Michael Bennet
Democrat
John Hoeven
Republican
Amy Klobuchar
Democrat
Ben Lujan
Democrat
Jeff Merkley
Democrat
Tina Smith
Democrat
Debbie Stabenow
Democrat
Sheldon Whitehouse
Democrat
Thom Tillis
Republican
John Hickenlooper
Democrat
Mazie Hirono
Democrat
Elizabeth Warren
Democrat
Maria Cantwell
Democrat
Alex Padilla
Democrat
Tammy Duckworth
Democrat
Richard Blumenthal
Democrat
Cory Booker
Democrat
Robert Casey
Democrat
Edward Markey
Democrat
Christopher Murphy
Democrat
Margaret Hassan
Democrat
Angus King
Independent
Kirsten Gillibrand
Democrat
Gary Peters
Democrat
Mark Warner
Democrat
Jeanne Shaheen
Democrat
Laphonza Butler
Democrat
Tammy Baldwin
Democrat
Catherine Cortez Masto
Democrat
Mark Kelly
Democrat
Jacky Rosen
Democrat
Mike Braun
Republican
Krysten Sinema
Democrat