To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the award of the Purple Heart to persons wounded in action by friendly fire.

Vote results

No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).

Cosponsors

54 cosponsors — 18 Republicans, 36 Democrats

16 of 54 cosponsors (30%) are from the other party.

Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Douglas Applegate (D-OH), Chester Atkins (D-MA), Jim Bacchus (D-FL), Doug Barnard (D-GA), Tom Bevill (D-AL), James Bilbray (D-NV), Ben Blaz (R-GU), David Bonior (D-MI), Albert Bustamante (D-TX), Howard Coble (R-NC), Gary Condit (D-CA), George Darden (D-GA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Robert Dornan (R-CA), Thomas Foglietta (D-PA), Barney Frank (D-MA), Martin Frost (D-TX), Elton Gallegly (R-CA), Benjamin Gilman (R-NY), Larry Hopkins (R-KY), Joan Horn (D-MO), William Jefferson (D-LA), Ed Jenkins (D-GA), Walter Jones (D-NC), Robert Lagomarsino (R-CA), Martin Lancaster (D-NC), Greg Laughlin (R-TX), Jerry Lewis (R-CA), Robert Livingston (R-LA) and 24 more.

More from the sponsor

Other 102nd Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Pete Peterson.

• H.R. 5020 (102nd) Prisoner-of-War Commemorative Coin Act
• H.R. 5307 (102nd) To amend title 10, United States Code, to remove the limitations on the number of units of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps…
• H.R. 2538 (102nd) To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
• H.R. 3100 (102nd) To designate the building located at 4396 Lafayette Street in Marianna, Florida, as the "T. Thomas Fortune Post Office Building".
• H.R. 3765 (102nd) To suspend temporarily certain bars to the furnishing of veterans benefits to certain former spouses of veterans and to suspend…
• H.R. 4137 (102nd) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief and encourage economic recovery.

Sponsor’s state and district

Florida in Congress · FL-2 district