Hershel ‘Woody' Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Location Act

Introduced Mar 5, 2025Latest action Aug 31, 2026Public Lands and Natural Resources

Plain-English summary

Hershel "Woody" Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Location Act 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).

Deterministically condensed from the official CRS summary; verify details in the official record.

People and recorded decisions

Sponsors, Cosponsors & House Votes

Ruben Gallego

Cosponsor · Democratic · AZ

Rafael Edward Ted Cruz

Cosponsor · Republican · TX

Thom R Sen Tillis

Cosponsor · Republican · NC

Charles E Grassley

Cosponsor · Republican · IA

Thomas Cotton

Cosponsor · Republican · AR

Ted Budd

Cosponsor · Republican · NC

Cindy Hyde-Smith

Cosponsor · Republican · MS

Tim Sheehy

Cosponsor · Republican · MT

James Conley Justice II

Sponsor · Republican · WV

Shelley Moore Capito

Cosponsor · Republican · WV

William M. Cassidy

Cosponsor · Republican · LA

James E Mr. Risch

Cosponsor · Other · ID

Marsha Blackburn

Cosponsor · Republican · TN

John Sen Cornyn

Cosponsor · Republican · TX

No linked House roll-call vote is available yet. Senate votes are not currently synchronized.

Official Subjects

Public Lands and Natural ResourcesCongressional tributesDistrict of ColumbiaGovernment trust fundsConflicts and warsMilitary personnel and dependentsMonuments and memorialsVeterans' organizations and recognitionMilitary history

Sources & text

Official Congress.gov record ↗Engrossed in Senate ↗Engrossed in Senate ↗Engrossed in Senate ↗Introduced in Senate ↗

Congress.gov data last updated Sep 1, 2026. Automated summaries preserve a source version and generation timestamp; human edits are explicitly recorded.