Shirley Chisholm Congressional Gold Medal Act

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 115th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

HJD JeffriesSponsor

52 cosponsors · 50 D, 2 R

AAD Adams SBD Bishop GKD Butterfield KBD Bass JBD Beatty LBD Blunt Rochester ABD Brown ECD Cummings JCD Crowley WCD Clay ECD Cleaver YCD Clarke ACD Carson DDD Davis DDR Donovan EED Engel KED Ellison DED Evans AED Espaillat MFD Fudge AGD Green AHD Hastings BHD Higgins EJD Johnson HJD Johnson RKD Kelly NLD Lowey BLD Lee BLD Lawrence ALD Lawson CMD Maloney GMD Meeks GMD Moore SMD Maloney GMD Meng JND Nadler END Norton DPD Payne SPD Plaskett BRD Rush CRD Richmond KRD Rice BSD Scott JSD Serrano TSD Sewell TSD Suozzi BTD Thompson PTD Tonko NVD Velázquez FWD Wilson BWD Watson Coleman PKR King

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

This bill provides for the posthumous presentation of a Congressional Gold Medal in commemoration of Shirley Chisholm, in recognition of her activism, independence, and groundbreaking achievements in politics, election as the first African American woman in Congress, and campaign to be the first African American to gain the nomination of a major political…