Senate resolution · 109th Congress · Latest step: Passed Senate

A resolution designating June 7, 2005, as "National Hunger Awareness Day" and authorizing that the Senate offices of Senators Gordon Smith, Blanche L. Lincoln, Elizabeth Dole, and Richard J. Durbin be used to collect donations of food from May 26, 2005, until June 7, 2005, from concerned Members of Congress and staff to assist families suffering from hunger and food insecurity in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

S.Res. 156Introduced May 25, 2005Policy area: Commemorations

Where it went

IntroducedMay 25, 2005
Committee actionskipped
Passed SenateMay 25, 2005 · by unanimous consent

Latest action: May 25, 2005 — Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5939-5940; text as passed Senate: CR S5939-5940; text of measure as introduced: CR S5938)

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

4 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 2 Democrats

2 of 4 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.

Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Gordon Smith (R-OR).

More from the sponsor

Other 109th Congress bills sponsored by Sen. Richard Durbin.

Sponsor’s state and district

Illinois in Congress

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