HR 4597 · 109th Congress 2005–2007, ended

Code Talkers Recognition Act

Introduced Dec 16, 2005 Originated House Sponsor Kay Granger R-TX

Latest action · Jan 10, 2006 Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedDec 16, 2005
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Code Talkers Recognition Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to make arrangements for the presentation of a congressional gold medal: (1) to persons, including specified individuals, who served as Sioux or Comanche Code Talkers during World War II; (2) honoring the Choctaw Code Talkers of World War I; and (3) to any other Native American member of the armed forces, identified by the Secretary of Defense, who served as a Code Talker in any foreign conflict in which the United States was involved during the 20th Century.

Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medals struck under this Act and to deposit the proceeds in the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund to pay for the costs of the medals awarded under this Act.

Cosponsors 183

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 16, 2005 to Dec 8, 2006; 33 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings	Original	Dec 16, 2005
R-WY	Barbara Cubin	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-MA	Barney Frank	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee	Original	Dec 16, 2005
R-IL	Donald A. Manzullo	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-HI	Ed Case	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-NY	Edolphus Towns	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-AS	Eni F. H. Faleomavaega	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.	Original	Dec 16, 2005
R-VA	Frank R. Wolf	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-CA	Howard L. Berman	Original	Dec 16, 2005
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen	Original	Dec 16, 2005
R-AZ	J. D. Hayworth	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-WA	Jay Inslee	Original	Dec 16, 2005
R-CA	Jerry Lewis	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-CA	Juanita Millender-McDonald	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-HI	Neil Abercrombie	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-RI	Patrick J. Kennedy	Original	Dec 16, 2005
R-PA	Phil English	Original	Dec 16, 2005
R-TX	Ralph M. Hall	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Dec 16, 2005
R-AZ	Rick Renzi	Original	Dec 16, 2005
R-OH	Robert W. Ney	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-FL	Robert Wexler	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-WI	Ron Kind	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-SD	Stephanie Herseth Sandlin	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-OH	Stephanie Tubbs Jones	Original	Dec 16, 2005
R-MI	Thaddeus G. McCotter	Original	Dec 16, 2005
D-LA	William J. Jefferson	Original	Dec 16, 2005
R-MI	Fred Upton		Jan 31, 2006
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jan 31, 2006
R-CA	Ken Calvert		Jan 31, 2006
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		Jan 31, 2006
R-MN	Mark R. Kennedy		Jan 31, 2006
R-OK	Tom Cole		Feb 8, 2006
R-CA	Dana Rohrabacher		Feb 28, 2006
D-CA	George Miller		Feb 28, 2006
R-OK	John Sullivan		Feb 28, 2006
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Feb 28, 2006
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		Feb 28, 2006
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Feb 28, 2006
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Feb 28, 2006
R-NE	Lee Terry		Mar 2, 2006
D-KS	Dennis Moore		Apr 25, 2006
R-TX	K. Michael Conaway		Apr 26, 2006
R-CT	Rob Simmons		Apr 26, 2006
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Apr 27, 2006
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Apr 27, 2006
D-VA	James P. Moran		Apr 27, 2006
D-CA	Mike Thompson		May 2, 2006
R-TX	Ron Paul		May 11, 2006
D-TX	Chet Edwards		May 17, 2006
R-TX	Henry Bonilla		May 17, 2006
R-CO	Joel Hefley		May 17, 2006
R-TX	Michael C. Burgess		May 17, 2006
R-TX	Pete Sessions		May 17, 2006
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		May 17, 2006
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		May 23, 2006
R-TX	John R. Carter		May 23, 2006
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Jun 6, 2006
R-FL	Mark Foley		Jun 12, 2006
R-AR	John Boozman		Jun 14, 2006
R-CO	Marilyn N. Musgrave		Jun 14, 2006
D-CA	Sam Farr		Jun 14, 2006
D-OK	Dan Boren		Jun 21, 2006
R-KS	Jerry Moran		Jun 21, 2006
D-MO	Ike Skelton		Jun 26, 2006
D-TN	Jim Cooper		Jun 26, 2006
D-WA	Norman D. Dicks		Jun 28, 2006
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		Jun 29, 2006
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Jun 29, 2006
D-OR	Darlene Hooley		Jun 29, 2006
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jun 29, 2006
D-CA	Bob Filner		Jul 10, 2006
D-CA	Joe Baca		Jul 10, 2006
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Jul 10, 2006
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Jul 10, 2006
R-OK	Frank D. Lucas		Jul 11, 2006
R-IA	James A. Leach		Jul 11, 2006
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Jul 11, 2006
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Jul 12, 2006
R-NV	Jon C. Porter		Jul 13, 2006
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Jul 18, 2006
R-AK	Don Young		Jul 18, 2006
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Jul 19, 2006
R-ID	Michael K. Simpson		Jul 24, 2006
R-NC	Charles H. Taylor		Jul 27, 2006
R-CA	Daniel E. Lungren		Jul 27, 2006
D-CA	Diane E. Watson		Jul 27, 2006
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen		Jul 27, 2006
D-WA	Jim McDermott		Jul 27, 2006
R-MI	John J.H. "Joe" Schwarz		Jul 27, 2006
R-TX	Randy Neugebauer		Jul 27, 2006
R-TX	Sam Johnson		Jul 27, 2006
D-NM	Tom Udall		Jul 27, 2006
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Sep 6, 2006
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Sep 6, 2006
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman		Sep 6, 2006
R-SC	Henry E. Brown, Jr.		Sep 6, 2006
D-AR	Mike Ross		Sep 6, 2006
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Sep 6, 2006
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Sep 6, 2006
R-IN	Dan Burton		Sep 7, 2006
R-TX	Kenny Marchant		Sep 7, 2006
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		Sep 7, 2006
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Sep 12, 2006
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Sep 13, 2006
D-WA	Brian Baird		Sep 13, 2006
D-IN	Julia Carson		Sep 13, 2006
R-FL	Katherine Harris		Sep 13, 2006
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Sep 13, 2006
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Sep 13, 2006
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Sep 14, 2006
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Sep 19, 2006
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Sep 19, 2006
R-AL	Terry Everett		Sep 19, 2006
D-IL	Lane Evans		Sep 20, 2006
R-CA	Mary Bono		Sep 20, 2006
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Sep 25, 2006
D-ND	Earl Pomeroy		Sep 25, 2006
R-OK	Ernest J. Istook Jr.		Sep 25, 2006
D-CA	Tom Lantos		Sep 25, 2006
D-TN	Harold E. Ford Jr.		Sep 26, 2006
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		Sep 26, 2006
D-FL	Allen Boyd		Sep 27, 2006
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Sep 27, 2006
R-MS	Charles W. "Chip" Pickering		Sep 27, 2006
D-LA	Charlie Melancon		Sep 27, 2006
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Sep 27, 2006
D-MS	Gene Taylor		Sep 27, 2006
R-TX	Jeb Hensarling		Sep 27, 2006
D-UT	Jim Matheson		Sep 27, 2006
D-CO	John T. Salazar		Sep 27, 2006
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Sep 27, 2006
R-OH	Paul E. Gillmor		Sep 27, 2006
D-NY	Steve Israel		Sep 27, 2006
D-PA	Tim Holden		Sep 27, 2006
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz		Sep 28, 2006
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Sep 28, 2006
D-CA	Hilda L. Solis		Sep 28, 2006
R-FL	Jeff Miller		Sep 28, 2006
R-IA	Jim Nussle		Sep 28, 2006
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Sep 28, 2006
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Sep 28, 2006
D-CO	Mark Udall		Sep 28, 2006
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Sep 28, 2006
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Sep 29, 2006
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Sep 29, 2006
D-TX	Solomon P. Ortiz		Sep 29, 2006
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Sep 29, 2006
D-AR	Vic Snyder		Sep 29, 2006
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Nov 13, 2006
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Nov 15, 2006
R-CA	John Campbell		Nov 15, 2006
R-IL	Ray LaHood		Nov 15, 2006
R-CA	Darrell Issa		Dec 5, 2006
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		Dec 5, 2006
R-TX	Kevin Brady		Dec 5, 2006
R-LA	Richard H. Baker		Dec 5, 2006
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes		Dec 5, 2006
R-AL	Spencer Bachus		Dec 5, 2006
R-IA	Steve King		Dec 5, 2006
R-IA	Tom Latham		Dec 5, 2006
R-NC	Virginia Foxx		Dec 5, 2006
D-MA	Bill Delahunt		Dec 6, 2006
R-PA	Charles W. Dent		Dec 6, 2006
D-GA	David Scott		Dec 6, 2006
R-MT	Denny Rehberg		Dec 6, 2006
R-CA	Devin Nunes		Dec 6, 2006
R-CA	Edward R. Royce		Dec 6, 2006
D-TX	Henry Cuellar		Dec 6, 2006
R-TX	John Abney Culberson		Dec 6, 2006
R-IL	Judy Biggert		Dec 6, 2006
R-TX	Louie Gohmert		Dec 6, 2006
D-AR	Marion Berry		Dec 6, 2006
R-TX	Michael T. McCaul		Dec 6, 2006
R-LA	Rodney Alexander		Dec 6, 2006
R-MD	Wayne T. Gilchrest		Dec 6, 2006
D-SC	John M. Spratt, Jr.		Dec 8, 2006

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Financial Services Committee	Referred Dec 16, 2005
	Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee	Referred Jan 10, 2006

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jan 10, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
Dec 16, 2005Introduced in House
Dec 16, 2005Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 1035	Code Talkers Recognition Act	Related bill	Sep 20, 2006

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To authorize the presentation of gold medals on behalf of Congress to Native Americans who served as Code Talkers during foreign conflicts in which the United States was involved during the 20th Century in recognition of their service to the Nation.
Short Titles as Introduced: Code Talkers Recognition Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commemorations.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Dec 16, 2005Introduced in House

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