House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Welles Remy Crowther Congressional Gold Medal Act
Official title: To award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal to Welles Remy Crowther, in recognition of his bravery, heroism, and sacrifice in the face of one of the gravest tragedies in American history.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 19, 2025
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Latest action: Sep 19, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5519.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LAWLER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 154, September 19, 2025, Page H4489):Article 1, Section 8 of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 19, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 54 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5519, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5519
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
3746ae9360a87fb301f7b664e243aab48b0cd06a0901c455fea4fdcd83ec15c6
PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
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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
57 cosponsors — 28 Republicans, 29 Democrats
29 of 57 cosponsors (51%) are from the other party.
Mark Amodei (R-NV), Brian Babin (R-TX), Don Bacon (R-NE), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Mike Bost (R-IL), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Ben Cline (R-VA), J. Correa (D-CA), Angie Craig (D-MN), Donald Davis (D-NC), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Troy Downing (R-MT), Chuck Edwards (R-NC), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Russ Fulcher (R-ID), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Brandon Gill (R-TX), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Diana Harshbarger (R-TN), Jeff Hurd (R-CO), William Keating (D-MA), Timothy Kennedy (D-NY), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Greg Landsman (D-OH), Nicholas Langworthy (R-NY), George Latimer (D-NY), Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) and 27 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.