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S. 527 · 114th Congress

A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround…

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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 served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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Passed the Senate without a recorded vote, then expired. It passed by voice vote or unanimous consent, which don't record how each member voted, but didn't become law before the 114th Congress ended.

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74 cosponsors · 39 D, 34 R, 1 I
LAR Alexander KAR Ayotte RBR Blunt BBD Boxer SBD Brown RBR Burr TBD Baldwin JBR Barrasso MBD Bennet RBD Blumenthal CBD Booker BCD Cardin DCR Coats TCR Cochran SCR Collins SCR Capito JCR Cornyn BCR Corker CCD Coons TCR Cotton TCR Cruz RDD Durbin JDD Donnelly SDR Daines DFD Feinstein AFD Franken KGD Gillibrand OHR Hatch MHD Hirono MHD Heinrich JHR Hoeven JIR Inhofe JIR Isakson RJR Johnson AKD Klobuchar TKD Kaine PLD Leahy MMR McConnell BMD Menendez BMD Mikulski PMD Murray LMR Murkowski CMD Murphy CMD McCaskill JMD Merkley BND Nelson RPR Portman GPD Peters DPR Perdue JRD Reed HRD Reid JRR Risch MRR Rubio BSI Sanders CSD Schumer RSR Shelby DSD Stabenow JSD Shaheen TSR Scott BSD Schatz BSR Sasse JTR Thune RWR Wicker RWD Wyden SWD Whitehouse EWD Warren BCD Casey HHD Heitkamp EMD Markey MRR Rounds MWD Warner DFR Fischer DHR Heller MER Enzi

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

  1. Senate Introduced Feb 12, 2015
  2. Senate Passed Feb 26, 2015
What it does: CRS summary · Passed Senate without amendment · Feb 26, 2015

(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.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: 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.

Latest action (Feb 27, 2015): Held at the desk.

Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Feb 12, 2015

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

  1. Senate Introduced Feb 12, 2015
  2. Senate Passed Feb 26, 2015

No recorded floor vote found.