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H.R. 2864: Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act

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H.R. 2864: Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act

112th Congress · introduced 2011-09-07 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2011-09-07 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act

Plain summary

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.

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Official text

Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9] · 187 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Mike Kelly (R-PA), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Andy Harris (R-MD), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (R-TN), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Sam Graves (R-MO), Betty McCollum (D-MN), John B. Larson (D-CT), Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA) and 127 more.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong112-hr2864 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112