Senate Passes CAP Congressional Gold Medal Bill

WASHINGTON — King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew unveiled the Raoul Wallenberg Congressional Gold Medal. The medal unveiled May 9 at the US Treasury in Washington is inscribed with hero of heroes beneath the likeness ...

The Senate passed a bill Thursday before leaving for the weekend that would give congressional gold medals to the four victims of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church more than 50 years ago. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) introduced H.R. 360, ...

Image courtesy of Library of Congress American inventor Thomas Edison received the Congressional Gold Medal on October 20, 1928. On this date the House of Representatives voted to approve H.J. Res. 243, to award inventor Thomas A. Edison a ...

Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus will receive the Congressional Gold Medal, the United States highest civilian award, on Wednesday, according to the Yunus Centre. The Bangladeshi microcredit pioneer will be given the honour at a joint session of the ...

The conferring of the Congressional Gold Medal to Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen (village) Bank in Bangladesh by the US Congress on April 17 at Capitol Hill reflects a great honor for Nobel laureate Yunus for his lifelong dedication to ...

Viewd by: 83 Not rated yet 18 April 2013 Professor Mohammed Yunus accepts the Congressional Gold Medal, at the US Capitol in Washington. Others in the picture are Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen , representative Nancy Pelosi, house speaker John ...

*The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted unanimously to honor the four young Alabama girls killed in a 1963 church bombing with the Congressional Gold Medal, one of the country's highest civilian honors. Addie Mae Collins, 14; Denise ...

WASHINGTON -- Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his work fighting global poverty. He called for overhauling existing economic and political systems to help alleviate ...

Congressman Higgins & County Executive Poloncarz Present Award to Local Veteran Pioneer Congressman Brian Higgins was joined by Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, members of the U.S. Marine Corps, local veterans, and others in the Western New ...