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Hershel ‘Woody' Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Location Act
Official title: A bill to authorize the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation to establish a commemorative work on the National Mall to honor the extraordinary acts of valor, selfless service, and sacrifice displayed by Medal of Honor recipients.
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Public Law 119-104, September 10, 2026
SenatePassed with no objection (unanimous consent)
This bill requires the authorized monument honoring Medal of Honor recipients to be located within the Reserve (the great cross-axis of the National Mall, which generally extends from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial and from the White House to the Jefferson Memorial).
House floor actionsMr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
SenateMessage on Senate action sent to the House.
House floor actionsReceived in the House.
SenateSenate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Library of CongressPassed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
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SenateCommittee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
SenateCommittee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 119-238.
Library of CongressIntroduced in Senate
SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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I want to talk to you about the namesake of this bill, Woody Williams. You know, Woody was a friend, a good friend. His name was Hershel ``Woody'' Williams. My bill is S. 858. It is going to be called the Hershel Woody Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Location Act.
First, I give a very sincere thank you to the chairman of the Natural Resources Committee and the ranking member for expeditiously working to get this bill through, in addition to in years past when we got the National Medal of Honor memorialized and approved as well.
Since I first arrived in the Senate, I have been working across the aisle to support the building of two important museums on the National Mall--one being the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino and the other being the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.
As a next step, this bill we are considering will ensure the memorial is located next to the Lincoln Memorial in the shadow of a President who created the Medal of Honor during the first year of the Civil War.
Yesterday, Dover Air Force Base once again had the honor of receiving the remains of three Americans who died in service to our Nation: SGT Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, of Des Moines, and SGT William Nathaniel Howard, of Marshalltown--both Iowans, both servicing in the Iowa National Guard--and Ayad Mansoor Sakat, a resident of Michigan, originally an Iraqi,…
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