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Version 82 · Passed Senate without amendment · Sep 9, 2011
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Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act - Authorizes the President to award a Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Congressional Medal to: (1) the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania, (2) the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York, and (3) the Pentagon Memorial.
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike three designs of such gold medal to honor, respectively: (1) those who lost their lives in the the attack at the World Trade Center, (2) the passengers and crew aboard United Airlines Flight 93 that was brought down in rural Pennsylvania, and (3) those who lost their lives at the Pentagon.
Authorizes the Secretary to strike and sell bronze duplicates of such medals and to distribute any funds from such sales exceeding costs equally between the three memorial sites.
People & committees
Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] · D–PA
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Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Received in the House.
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Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S5480)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S5480)
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5479-5480)
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S5479-5480)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Introduced in Senate
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