HRES 49 · 108th Congress · Commemorations
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon, all of whom died in the destruction of the space shuttle Columbia.
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EnactedLatest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.(2003-02-28)
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Calls for the President to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the astronauts who died in the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia: Rick Husband; William McCool; Michael Anderson; Kalpana Chawla; David Brown; Laurel Clark; and Ilan Ramon.…
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16 Democrats4 Republicans