HR 1179 · 117th Congress 2021–2023, ended

Iran Hostages Congressional Gold Medal Act

Introduced Feb 18, 2021 Originated House Sponsor Thomas R. Suozzi D-NY

Latest action · Feb 18, 2021 Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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IntroducedFeb 18, 2021
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Iran Hostages Congressional Gold Medal Act

This bill requires the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the award of a Congressional Gold Medal commemorating the bravery and endurance of the 53 hostages of the Iran Hostage Crisis.

Following its award, the medal shall be given to the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution for display and research.

The Department of the Treasury must strike duplicate medals in silver for presentation to a hostage (or the personal representative of a deceased hostage), and Treasury may also strike and sell duplicate medals in bronze.

Cosponsors 298

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 18, 2021 to Jul 29, 2022; 9 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-WV	Alexander X. Mooney	Original	Feb 18, 2021
R-AR	Bruce Westerman	Original	Feb 18, 2021
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney	Original	Feb 18, 2021
R-TX	Dan Crenshaw	Original	Feb 18, 2021
D-MD	David J. Trone	Original	Feb 18, 2021
D-WA	Derek Kilmer	Original	Feb 18, 2021
R-NE	Don Bacon	Original	Feb 18, 2021
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Feb 18, 2021
D-CA	Jared Huffman	Original	Feb 18, 2021
R-AS	Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen		Feb 25, 2021
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Feb 25, 2021
R-WI	Thomas P. Tiffany		Feb 25, 2021
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Mar 3, 2021
D-MA	Seth Moulton		Mar 3, 2021
R-IA	Ashley Hinson		Mar 11, 2021
D-CA	Jimmy Panetta		Mar 11, 2021
R-ID	Russ Fulcher		Mar 16, 2021
R-WI	Bryan Steil		Mar 19, 2021
R-PA	Brian K. Fitzpatrick		Apr 5, 2021
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Apr 5, 2021
D-NJ	Jefferson Van Drew		Apr 5, 2021
R-IA	Mariannette Miller-Meeks		Apr 5, 2021
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Apr 5, 2021
R-MS	Trent Kelly		Apr 5, 2021
R-CA	Young Kim		Apr 5, 2021
R-FL	Carlos A. Gimenez		Apr 13, 2021
D-PA	Conor Lamb		Apr 13, 2021
R-AZ	Debbie Lesko		Apr 13, 2021
R-GA	Earl L. "Buddy" Carter		Apr 13, 2021
R-PA	Guy Reschenthaler		Apr 13, 2021
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Apr 13, 2021
R-IN	Jim Banks		Apr 13, 2021
D-CA	Jim Costa		Apr 13, 2021
R-CA	Michelle Steel		Apr 13, 2021
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Apr 13, 2021
R-FL	Scott Franklin		Apr 16, 2021
R-NE	Adrian Smith		Apr 19, 2021
R-OH	David P. Joyce		Apr 19, 2021
R-CA	Tom McClintock		Apr 21, 2021
D-CA	Norma J. Torres		May 12, 2021
D-NJ	Andy Kim		May 14, 2021
R-NC	Dan Bishop		May 14, 2021
D-IA	Cynthia Axne		May 25, 2021
R-WV	David B. McKinley		May 28, 2021
R-FL	John H. Rutherford		May 28, 2021
R-CA	Ken Calvert		May 28, 2021
R-AZ	Paul A. Gosar		May 28, 2021
R-IL	Rodney Davis		May 28, 2021
D-MD	Jamie Raskin		Jun 4, 2021
D-VA	Jennifer Wexton		Jun 4, 2021
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Jun 14, 2021
R-NE	Jeff Fortenberry		Jun 14, 2021
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Jun 14, 2021
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Jun 16, 2021
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Jun 16, 2021
D-WA	Marilyn Strickland		Jun 16, 2021
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		Jun 17, 2021
R-TX	Roger Williams		Jun 22, 2021
R-MI	Tim Walberg		Jun 22, 2021
R-MI	John R. Moolenaar		Jun 23, 2021
D-GA	Lucy McBath		Jun 23, 2021
D-IN	André Carson		Jun 24, 2021
R-WA	Dan Newhouse		Jun 24, 2021
D-CA	John Garamendi		Jun 24, 2021
R-NY	Lee M. Zeldin		Jun 28, 2021
R-GA	Jody B. Hice		Jun 29, 2021
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Jun 29, 2021
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Jun 29, 2021
R-GA	Austin Scott		Jun 30, 2021
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Jul 6, 2021
R-NY	Andrew R. Garbarino		Jul 19, 2021
D-NV	Dina Titus		Jul 19, 2021
R-PA	Fred Keller		Jul 19, 2021
R-IN	Greg Pence		Jul 19, 2021
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Jul 19, 2021
D-GA	Nikema Williams		Jul 19, 2021
R-NY	John Katko		Jul 20, 2021
R-MI	Fred Upton		Jul 21, 2021
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Jul 26, 2021
R-NY	Elise M. Stefanik		Jul 26, 2021
D-CT	James A. Himes		Jul 26, 2021
D-CA	Juan Vargas		Jul 26, 2021
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jul 27, 2021
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Jul 28, 2021
R-NC	Richard Hudson		Jul 28, 2021
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Jul 28, 2021
R-OK	Tom Cole		Jul 28, 2021
D-NY	Adriano Espaillat		Jul 29, 2021
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Aug 3, 2021
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Aug 6, 2021
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Aug 6, 2021
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Aug 6, 2021
D-CA	Jackie Speier		Aug 6, 2021
D-NJ	Josh Gottheimer		Aug 6, 2021
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Aug 6, 2021
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Aug 10, 2021
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Aug 10, 2021
R-GA	A. Drew Ferguson IV		Aug 13, 2021
R-CA	Doug LaMalfa		Aug 23, 2021
D-PA	Dwight Evans		Sep 3, 2021
R-PA	Scott Perry		Sep 3, 2021
R-MI	Lisa C. McClain		Sep 10, 2021
D-CA	J. Luis Correa		Sep 17, 2021
R-FL	Maria Elvira Salazar		Sep 17, 2021
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Sep 17, 2021
D-NJ	Mikie Sherrill		Sep 29, 2021
D-FL	Al Lawson, Jr.		Oct 8, 2021
R-TN	Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann		Oct 8, 2021
R-SC	Joe Wilson		Oct 8, 2021
R-SC	Ralph Norman		Oct 8, 2021
D-TX	Veronica Escobar		Oct 8, 2021
D-TX	Henry Cuellar		Oct 12, 2021
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Oct 12, 2021
D-FL	Lois Frankel		Oct 15, 2021
R-FL	Bill Posey		Oct 19, 2021
R-FL	Gus M. Bilirakis		Oct 21, 2021
R-SC	William R. Timmons IV		Oct 21, 2021
R-FL	Michael Waltz		Oct 26, 2021
D-FL	Charlie Crist		Oct 27, 2021
D-TX	Lizzie Fletcher		Oct 28, 2021
R-SC	Jeff Duncan		Nov 1, 2021
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		Nov 2, 2021
D-MP	Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan		Nov 2, 2021
D-CT	Jahana Hayes		Nov 2, 2021
D-GU	Michael F. Q. San Nicolas		Nov 2, 2021
D-TX	Vicente Gonzalez		Nov 3, 2021
R-TX	Jake Ellzey		Nov 4, 2021
R-NY	Nicole Malliotakis		Nov 4, 2021
D-TX	Al Green		Nov 5, 2021
R-PA	Glenn Thompson		Nov 5, 2021
D-MN	Dean Phillips		Nov 12, 2021
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Nov 12, 2021
R-KS	Tracey Mann		Nov 12, 2021
R-FL	Neal P. Dunn		Nov 15, 2021
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		Nov 16, 2021
R-IN	Jackie Walorski		Nov 17, 2021
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Nov 17, 2021
R-MO	Vicky Hartzler		Nov 17, 2021
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Nov 30, 2021
D-GA	David Scott		Dec 1, 2021
D-IL	Raja Krishnamoorthi		Dec 2, 2021
R-FL	Daniel Webster		Dec 7, 2021
R-FL	Mario Diaz-Balart		Dec 13, 2021
R-IN	Larry Bucshon		Dec 16, 2021
R-FL	Kat Cammack		Dec 20, 2021
R-IL	Adam Kinzinger		Jan 13, 2022
D-GA	Carolyn Bourdeaux		Jan 13, 2022
R-KS	Jake LaTurner		Jan 13, 2022
R-PR	Jenniffer González-Colón		Jan 13, 2022
R-OK	Kevin Hern		Jan 13, 2022
D-KS	Sharice Davids		Jan 13, 2022
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Jan 19, 2022
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Jan 19, 2022
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Jan 21, 2022
D-MA	Jake Auchincloss		Jan 21, 2022
D-NC	Kathy E. Manning		Jan 21, 2022
R-IL	Mary E. Miller		Jan 21, 2022
R-TX	Michael T. McCaul		Jan 21, 2022
R-MI	Peter Meijer		Jan 21, 2022
D-OH	Shontel M. Brown		Jan 21, 2022
R-OH	Troy Balderson		Jan 21, 2022
D-IL	Bill Foster		Feb 1, 2022
D-NC	Deborah K. Ross		Feb 1, 2022
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Feb 1, 2022
R-TX	Kay Granger		Feb 2, 2022
R-MN	Tom Emmer		Feb 2, 2022
D-MN	Angie Craig		Feb 4, 2022
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Feb 7, 2022
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Feb 8, 2022
R-FL	Matt Gaetz		Feb 18, 2022
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Feb 25, 2022
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Feb 25, 2022
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Feb 25, 2022
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas		Feb 25, 2022
D-FL	Darren Soto		Mar 7, 2022
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Mar 7, 2022
D-VA	Elaine G. Luria		Mar 7, 2022
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Mar 7, 2022
D-CA	Jimmy Gomez		Mar 7, 2022
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Mar 7, 2022
D-NY	Ritchie Torres		Mar 7, 2022
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Mar 8, 2022
R-OH	Bob Gibbs		Mar 9, 2022
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Mar 9, 2022
D-IL	Marie Newman		Mar 9, 2022
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		Mar 11, 2022
D-IL	Bradley Scott Schneider		Mar 11, 2022
R-NC	Ted Budd		Mar 11, 2022
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Mar 15, 2022
R-KY	Andy Barr		Mar 15, 2022
R-MI	Jack Bergman		Mar 15, 2022
D-NY	Joseph D. Morelle		Mar 15, 2022
D-IL	Sean Casten		Mar 15, 2022
D-CA	Ted Lieu		Mar 15, 2022
D-VA	Abigail Davis Spanberger		Mar 16, 2022
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Mar 16, 2022
R-NV	Mark E. Amodei		Mar 17, 2022
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Mar 21, 2022
D-CA	Nanette Diaz Barragán		Mar 21, 2022
D-NV	Susie Lee		Mar 21, 2022
D-MA	Ayanna Pressley		Mar 24, 2022
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Mar 24, 2022
D-PA	Madeleine Dean		Mar 24, 2022
D-FL	Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick		Mar 29, 2022
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		Mar 30, 2022
D-NC	David E. Price		Mar 30, 2022
D-CA	Karen Bass		Mar 30, 2022
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle		Apr 1, 2022
R-MS	Michael Guest		Apr 1, 2022
D-TX	Colin Z. Allred		Apr 5, 2022
D-CA	Katie Porter		Apr 5, 2022
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Apr 5, 2022
D-MI	Haley M. Stevens		Apr 6, 2022
R-PA	Mike Kelly		Apr 6, 2022
R-FL	W. Gregory Steube		Apr 6, 2022
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		Apr 7, 2022
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Apr 7, 2022
D-MA	Lori Trahan		Apr 7, 2022
D-CA	Ro Khanna		Apr 11, 2022
D-PA	Susan Wild		Apr 11, 2022
D-TX	Joaquin Castro		Apr 14, 2022
D-CA	Judy Chu		Apr 14, 2022
R-MN	Michelle Fischbach		Apr 14, 2022
D-TX	Sylvia R. Garcia		Apr 14, 2022
D-NY	Antonio Delgado		Apr 25, 2022
R-VA	Bob Good		Apr 25, 2022
R-NY	Chris Jacobs		Apr 25, 2022
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Apr 25, 2022
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		Apr 25, 2022
R-AR	J. French Hill		Apr 25, 2022
D-CO	Joe Neguse		Apr 25, 2022
D-NH	Chris Pappas		May 6, 2022
R-AR	Eric A. "Rick" Crawford		May 6, 2022
D-CO	Jason Crow		May 6, 2022
D-NY	Paul Tonko		May 6, 2022
R-OH	Robert E. Latta		May 6, 2022
R-WY	Liz Cheney		May 10, 2022
R-LA	Mike Johnson		May 10, 2022
R-MN	Pete Stauber		May 10, 2022
R-KY	Harold Rogers		May 11, 2022
R-IL	Mike Bost		May 11, 2022
D-MD	Anthony G. Brown		May 13, 2022
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		May 13, 2022
D-CA	Raul Ruiz		May 13, 2022
R-IL	Darin LaHood		May 17, 2022
R-NM	Yvette Herrell		May 17, 2022
R-VA	Ben Cline		May 19, 2022
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		May 31, 2022
D-CA	Salud O. Carbajal		May 31, 2022
D-FL	Val Butler Demings		May 31, 2022
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Jun 3, 2022
R-OK	Stephanie I. Bice		Jun 3, 2022
D-IN	Frank J. Mrvan		Jun 7, 2022
D-AZ	Greg Stanton		Jun 7, 2022
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Jun 9, 2022
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Jun 9, 2022
D-VA	A. Donald McEachin		Jun 13, 2022
D-NY	Grace Meng		Jun 13, 2022
R-CA	Jay Obernolte		Jun 13, 2022
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Jun 13, 2022
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Jun 15, 2022
D-NY	Jamaal Bowman		Jun 15, 2022
D-WA	Kim Schrier		Jun 15, 2022
D-MI	Elissa Slotkin		Jun 21, 2022
R-SC	Nancy Mace		Jun 21, 2022
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Jun 21, 2022
D-CA	Josh Harder		Jun 23, 2022
D-CA	Mark Takano		Jun 23, 2022
D-CA	Ami Bera		Jul 1, 2022
R-MI	Bill Huizenga		Jul 1, 2022
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence		Jul 1, 2022
R-TN	Mark E. Green		Jul 1, 2022
D-AZ	Tom O'Halleran		Jul 1, 2022
D-HI	Kaiali'i Kahele		Jul 7, 2022
D-NY	Mondaire Jones		Jul 7, 2022
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Jul 12, 2022
R-NY	Claudia Tenney		Jul 12, 2022
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Jul 12, 2022
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Jul 12, 2022
D-CA	Mike Levin		Jul 12, 2022
R-TN	Tim Burchett		Jul 12, 2022
D-NJ	Tom Malinowski		Jul 12, 2022
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		Jul 15, 2022
R-AL	Barry Moore		Jul 15, 2022
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Jul 15, 2022
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Jul 15, 2022
R-NC	Gregory F. Murphy		Jul 15, 2022
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark		Jul 15, 2022
D-DE	Lisa Blunt Rochester		Jul 15, 2022
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Jul 15, 2022
D-LA	Troy A. Carter		Jul 15, 2022
D-MA	William R. Keating		Jul 15, 2022
R-AZ	David Schweikert		Jul 19, 2022
R-ND	Kelly Armstrong		Jul 19, 2022
R-WI	Mike Gallagher		Jul 19, 2022
D-VT	Peter Welch		Jul 19, 2022
D-NV	Steven Horsford		Jul 19, 2022
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Jul 29, 2022

Committees 3

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 Feb 18, 2021
House	Committee on House Administration	Referred Feb 18, 2021
House	Budget Committee	Referred Feb 18, 2021

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Feb 18, 2021Introduced in House
Feb 18, 2021Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

In the Congressional Record 2

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
House	Debate and remarks H256	Thomas R. Suozzi D-NY	Jan 20, 2022
House	Debate and remarks H225	Don Bacon R-NE	Jan 19, 2022

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 167, no. 31, February 18, 2021, page H538.

Related bills 1

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 2607	Iran Hostages Congressional Gold Medal Act	Related bill	Dec 27, 2022

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To award a Congressional Gold Medal to the former hostages of the Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979-1981, highlighting their resilience throughout the unprecedented ordeal which they lived through and the national unity it produced, marking four decades since their 444 days in captivity, and recognizing their sacrifice to our country.
Short Title(s) as Introduced: Iran Hostages Congressional Gold Medal Act

Subjects

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Feb 18, 2021Introduced in House

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