A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to Dr. Muhammad Yunus, in recognition of his contributions to the…

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 110th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

RDD DurbinSponsor

71 cosponsors · 48 D, 21 R, 2 I

RBR Bennett HCD Clinton THD Harkin JKD Kerry TCR Cochran PMD Murray MER Enzi JBD Bingaman DFD Feinstein PDR Domenici TJD Johnson CDD Dodd CLD Levin BSI Sanders SWD Whitehouse NCR Coleman MCD Cantwell JBD Biden BBD Boxer SBD Brown BCD Cardin KCD Conrad BCD Casey BDD Dorgan DID Inouye TKD Kennedy PLD Leahy BND Nelson BOD Obama MPD Pryor JRD Rockefeller CSD Schumer OSR Snowe KSD Salazar JWD Webb DAD Akaka MBD Baucus RBD Byrd EBD Bayh TCD Carper RFD Feingold HKD Kohl AKD Klobuchar BLD Lincoln FLD Lautenberg JLI Lieberman MLD Landrieu BMD Menendez BMD Mikulski CMD McCaskill BND Nelson JRD Reed HRD Reid DSD Stabenow JTD Tester RWD Wyden LAR Alexander SBR Brownback LCR Craig MCR Crapo JCR Cornyn LGR Graham JGR Gregg OHR Hatch JIR Inhofe RLR Lugar PRR Roberts ASR Specter GSR Smith RWR Wicker LMR Murkowski

4 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation on behalf of Congress of a gold medal of appropriate design to Dr. Muhammad Yunus in recognition of his many enduring contributions to the fight against global poverty.