[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
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[S. 2924 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]
Calendar No. 594
107th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 2924
To authorize the President to award posthumously the Congressional Gold
Medal to the passengers and crew of United Airlines flight 93 in the
aftermath of the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11,
2001.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 11, 2002
Mr. Specter (for himself, Mr. Allard, Mr. Allen, Mr. Bayh, Mr. Bennett,
Mr. Biden, Mr. Bond, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Breaux, Mr. Bunning, Mr. Burns,
Ms. Cantwell, Mrs. Carnahan, Mr. Carper, Mr. Chafee, Mr. Cleland, Mrs.
Clinton, Mr. Cochran, Ms. Collins, Mr. Conrad, Mr. Corzine, Mr. Crapo,
Mr. Dayton, Mr. Domenici, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Edwards, Mr.
Ensign, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Feingold, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr.
Grassley, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Helms, Mr. Hollings, Mr. Hutchinson, Mrs.
Hutchison, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Inouye, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Johnson, Mr.
Kennedy, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Kohl, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Levin, Mrs. Lincoln,
Mr. McCain, Mr. McConnell, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Miller, Mr. Murkowski, Mr.
Nelson of Florida, Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, Mr. Nickles, Mr. Reed, Mr.
Reid, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Santorum, Mr. Schumer, Mr.
Sessions, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Torricelli, Mr.
Warner, Mr. Wellstone, and Mr. Wyden) introduced the following bill;
which was read the first time
September 12, 2002
Read the second time and placed on the calendar
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A BILL
To authorize the President to award posthumously the Congressional Gold
Medal to the passengers and crew of United Airlines flight 93 in the
aftermath of the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11,
2001.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Honoring the Passengers and Crew of
United Flight 93 Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that--
(1) on September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 took
off at 8:44 a.m. from Newark, New Jersey, destined for San
Francisco, California;
(2) the plane was hijacked by 4 terrorists shortly after it
took off;
(3) it is widely presumed that the terrorists who took
control of United Airlines Flight 93 intended to use the
aircraft as a weapon and crash it into the United States
Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.;
(4) the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93
learned from cellular phone conversations with their loved ones
of the fate of the 3 other aircraft that were hijacked earlier
that same day and used as weapons to murder thousands of
innocent people and destroy American landmarks;
(5) the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93,
recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were
aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American
institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took
heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were
aboard could not be used as a weapon;
(6) the 40 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight
93, in the ultimate act of selfless courage and supreme
sacrifice, fought to recapture their flight from the
terrorists; and
(7) the struggle of the crew and passengers of United
Airlines Flight 93 against the terrorists caused the Boeing 757
to crash down in a sparsely populated area near Shanksville,
Pennsylvania at 10:10 a.m., September 11, 2001, possibly saving
countless lives in the Nation's Capital.
SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL.
(a) Presentation Authorized.--
(1) In general.--The President is authorized, on behalf of
Congress, to award posthumously a gold medal of appropriate
design to each of--
(A) the United Airlines Flight 93 crew members--
(i) Lorraine G. Bay;
(ii) Sandra W. Bradshaw;
(iii) Jason Dahl;
(iv) Wanda A. Green;
(v) LeRoy Homer;
(vi) CeeCee Lyles; and
(vii) Deborah A. Welsh; and
(B) the United Airlines Flight 93 passengers--
(i) Christian Adams;
(ii) Todd Beamer;
(iii) Alan Beaven;
(iv) Mark Bingham;
(v) Deora Bodley;
(vi) Marion Britton;
(vii) Thomas E. Burnett, Jr.;
(viii) William Cashman;
(ix) Georgine Rose Corrigan;
(x) Joseph Deluca;
(xi) Patrick Driscoll;
(xii) Edward Felt;
(xiii) Colleen Fraser;
(xiv) Andrew Garcia;
(xv) Jeremy Glick;
(xvi) Kristin Gould;
(xvii) Lauren Grandcolas;
(xviii) Donald F. Greene;
(xix) Linda Gronlund;
(xx) Richard Guadagno;
(xxi) Toshiya Kuge;
(xxii) Hilda Marcin;
(xxiii) Waleska Martinez;
(xxiv) Nicole Miller;
(xxv) Louis J. Nacke;
(xxvi) Donald Peterson;
(xxvii) Mark Rothenberg;
(xxviii) Christine Snyder;
(xxix) John Talignani;
(xxx) Honor Wainio; and
(xxxi) 3 additional heroes whose families
have requested that their names be withheld.
(2) Modalities.--The modalities of presentation of the
medals struck under this Act shall be determined by the
President, after consultation with the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, the Majority Leader of the Senate, the
Minority Leader of the Senate, and the Minority Leader of the
House of Representatives.
(b) Design and Striking.--For purposes of the presentation referred
to in subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury (in this Act
referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall strike gold medals with
suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions, to be determined by the
Secretary.
SEC. 4. STATUS AS NATIONAL MEDALS.
The medals struck under this Act are national medals for purposes
of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code.
SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums
as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
Calendar No. 594
107th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 2924
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To authorize the President to award posthumously the Congressional Gold
Medal to the passengers and crew of United Airlines flight 93 in the
aftermath of the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11,
2001.
_______________________________________________________________________
September 12, 2002
Read the second time and placed on the calendar
Introduced in Senate
Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 594.
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