Senate bill · 109th Congress · Did not become law
Louis Braille Bicentennial--Braille Literacy Commemorative Coin Act
Sponsor: Sen. Rick Santorum R-PAWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 17, 2006
- Committee actionJun 14, 2006
- Passed SenateJun 29, 2006 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 29, 2006 — Held at the desk.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 2321.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 2321, Louis Braille Bicentennial--Braille Literacy Commemorative Coin Act” on June 19, 2006. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on June 14, 2006</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 19, 2006 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17875
- CBO publication date
- June 19, 2006
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 2321, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/2321
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 6, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
f4ca5a59bb0a1906caf1be5da0c0343a107c3c01fed14056dae6a3e97d0084e3
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 2321, Louis Braille Bicentennial--Braille Literacy Commemorative Coin Act” on June 19, 2006. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on June 14, 2006”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 19, 2006 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17875
- CBO publication date
- June 19, 2006
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 2321, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/2321
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 6, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
f4ca5a59bb0a1906caf1be5da0c0343a107c3c01fed14056dae6a3e97d0084e3
PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.
- Congress.gov noteFor further action, see H.R.2872, which became Public Law 109-247 on 7/27/2006.Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 6, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- notes
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 2321, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/2321
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 6, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
f4ca5a59bb0a1906caf1be5da0c0343a107c3c01fed14056dae6a3e97d0084e3
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of December 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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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
71 cosponsors — 37 Republicans, 33 Democrats, 1 independent
33 of 71 cosponsors (46%) are from the other party.
Daniel Akaka (D-HI), A. Allard (R-CO), George Allen (R-VA), Max Baucus (D-MT), Evan Bayh (D-IN), Robert Bennett (R-UT), Joseph Biden (D-DE), Jesse Bingaman (D-NM), Christopher Bond (R-MO), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Sam Brownback (R-KS), Jim Bunning (R-KY), Conrad Burns (R-MT), Richard Burr (R-NC), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Thad Cochran (R-MS), Susan Collins (R-ME), Larry Craig (R-ID), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Mark Dayton (D-MN), James DeMint (R-SC), Michael DeWine (R-OH), Christopher Dodd (D-CT), Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), Pete Domenici (R-NM), Byron Dorgan (D-ND), Richard Durbin (D-IL) and 41 more.
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 27, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.