{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/legislation-to-honorgleason-with-congressional-gold-medal-reaches-246-supporters-in-house", "Legislation to #HonorGleason with Congressional Gold Medal Reaches 246 Supporters in House", "2018-12-18", "2018", "2018-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.18.18\n\t\t\t Legislation to #HonorGleason with Congressional Gold Medal Reaches 246 Supporters in House \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\r\nWASHINGTONU.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), today announced his bipartisan legislation (H.R. 5499) to award Washington state native, ALS champion, and former New Orleans Saints star Steve Gleason with the Congressional Gold Medal has gained 190 cosponsors in two weeks and is now supported by 246 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including Representatives Steve Scalise (R-LA), Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-WA), and Cedric Richmond (D-LA).\r\nThe bill (S. 2652) passed the Senate unanimously in June after garnering 73 cosponsors in just two months. It must pass the House by the end of the month in order to become law.\r\nThrough his work to help others who are disabled, Steve Gleason has changed so many lives for the better, said Dr. Cassidy. The Senate unanimously supported legislation to honor Steve with the Congressional Gold Medal, and as more House members hear about Steve's work they are supporting the bill too. I urge the House to pass it this month.\r\nOn Thanksgiving during the New Orleans Saints game, NBC aired a look at Steve Gleason's journey to becoming a father while fighting ALS.\r\nCassidy's bipartisan legislation would recognize Gleason for his work through the Gleason Initiative Foundation to provide individuals with neuromuscular diseases or injuries with the assistance they need to thrive, his advocacy for federal legislation ensuring people living with diseases such as ALS have access to speech generating devices, and his leadership in bringing together the single largest coordinated and collaborative ALS research project in the world.\r\nThe Congressional Gold Medal is the highest civilian honor Congress can bestow. Previous recipients of the Congressional Gold Medal include Orville and Wilbur Wright, Thomas Edison, Robert Frost, Bob Hope, Walt Disney, Roberto Clemente, Sir Winston Churchill, John Wayne, the 1980 U.S. Summer Olympic Team, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Ruth and Billy Graham, Frank Sinatra, Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, Byron Nelson, Arnold Palmer, and Jack Nicklaus.\r\nA full list of House members who have agreed to cosponsor the bill is below:\r\n\r\nAlabama\r\nRobert Aderholt (R-AL)\r\nMo Brooks (R-AL)\r\nBradley Byrne (R-AL)\r\nMartha Roby (R-AL)\r\nMike Rogers (R-AL)\r\nTerri Sewell (D-AL)\r\n\r\nAlaska\r\nDon Young (R-AK)\r\n\r\nAmerican Samoa\r\nAumua Amata Radewagen (R-American Samoa)\r\n\r\nArizona\r\nAndy Biggs (R-AZ)\r\nPaul Gosar (R-AZ)\r\nDebbie Lesko (R-AZ)\r\nMartha McSally (R-AZ)\r\nDavid Schweikert (R-AZ)\r\n\r\nArkansas\r\nRick Crawford (R-AR)\r\nFrench Hill (R-AR)\r\nBruce Westerman (R-AR)\r\nSteve Womack (R-AR)\r\n\r\nCalifornia\r\nKaren Bass (D-CA)\r\nKen Calvert (R-CA)\r\nJeff Denham (R-CA)\r\nDuncan Hunter (R-CA)\r\nDarrell Issa (R-CA)\r\nDoug LaMalfa (R-CA)\r\nBarbara Lee (D-CA)\r\nTom McClintock (R-CA)\r\nDevin Nunes (R-CA)\r\nDana Rohrabacher (R-CA)\r\nLucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA)\r\nEd Royce (R-CA)\r\nEric Swalwell (D-CA)\r\nDavid Valadao (R-CA)\r\nMimi Walters (R-CA)\r\n\r\nColorado\r\nMike Coffman (R-CO)\r\nDoug Lamborn (R-CO)\r\nEd Perlmutter (D-CO)\r\nScott Tipton (R-CO)\r\n\r\nConnecticut\r\nJohn Larson (D-CT)\r\n\r\nDelaware\r\nLisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)\r\n\r\nDistrict of Columbia\r\nEleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)\r\n\r\nFlorida\r\nGus Bilirakis (R-FL)\r\nVern Buchanan (R-FL)\r\nCarlos Curbelo (R-FL)\r\nVal Demings (D-FL)\r\nTed Deutch (D-FL)\r\nNeal Dunn (R-FL)\r\nMatt Gaetz (R-FL)\r\nAl Lawson (D-FL)\r\nBill Posey (R-FL)\r\nFrancis Rooney (R-FL)\r\nTom Rooney (R-FL)\r\nIlleana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)\r\nDennis Ross (R-FL)\r\nJohn Rutherford (R-FL)\r\nDebbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)\r\nDaniel Webster (R-FL)\r\nFrederica Wilson (D-FL)\r\nTed Yoho (R-FL)\r\n\r\nGeorgia\r\nRick Allen (R-GA)\r\nSanford Bishop (D-GA)\r\nBuddy Carter (R-GA)\r\nDoug Collins (R-GA)\r\nDrew Ferguson (R-GA)\r\nTom Graves (R-GA)\r\nJody Hice (R-GA)\r\nHank Johnson (D-GA)\r\nJohn Lewis (D-GA)\r\nBarry Loudermilk (R-GA)\r\nAustin Scott (R-GA)\r\nDavid Scott (D-GA)\r\n\r\nIowa\r\nSteve King (R-IA)\r\n\r\nIdaho\r\nRaul Labrador (R-ID)\r\nMike Simpson (R-ID)\r\n\r\nIllinois\r\nMike Bost (R-IL)\r\nRodney Davis (R-IL)\r\nDanny Davis (D-IL)\r\nRandy Hultgren (R-IL)\r\nRobin Kelly (D-IL)\r\nDarin LaHood (R-IL)\r\nDaniel Lipinski (D-IL)\r\nPeter Roskam (R-IL)\r\nBobby Rush (D-IL)\r\nBrad Schneider (D-IL)\r\nJohn Shimkus (R-IL)\r\n\r\nIndiana\r\nSusan Brooks (R-IN)\r\nLarry Buschon (R-IN)\r\nAndre Carson (D-IN)\r\nLuke Messer (R-IN)\r\nTodd Rokita (R-IN)\r\nJackie Walorski (R-IN)\r\n\r\nKansas\r\nLynn Jenkins (R-KS)\r\nRoger Marshall (R-KS)\r\nKevin Yoder (R-KS)\r\n\r\nKentucky\r\nAndy Barr (R-KY)\r\nJames Comer (R-KY)\r\nBrett Guthrie (R-KY)\r\nHal Rogers (R-KY)\r\n\r\nLouisiana\r\nRalph Abraham (R-LA)\r\nGarret Graves (R-LA)\r\nClay Higgins (R-LA)\r\nMike Johnson (R-LA)\r\n\r\nMaryland\r\nAnthony Brown (D-MD)\r\nAndy Harris (R-MD)\r\n\r\nMaine\r\nBruce Poliquin (R-ME)\r\n\r\nMichigan\r\nJack Bergman (D-MI)\r\nDebbie Dingell (D-MI)\r\nBill Huizenga (R-MI)\r\nBrenda Jones (D-MI)\r\nBrenda Lawrence (D-MI)\r\nPaul Mitchell (R-MI)\r\nJohn Moolenaar (R-MI)\r\nDavid Trott (R-MI)\r\nFred Upton (R-MI)\r\nTim Walberg (R-MI)\r\n\r\nMinnesota\r\nTom Emmer (R-MN)\r\nJason Lewis (R-MN)\r\nErik Paulsen (R-MN)\r\nCollin Peterson (D-MN)\r\n\r\nMississippi\r\nGregg Harper (R-MS)\r\nTrent Kelly (R-MS)\r\nSteven Palazzo (R-MS)\r\nBennie Thompson (D-MS)\r\n\r\nMissouri\r\nWilliam Lacy Clay (D-MO)\r\nVicky Hartzler (R-MO)\r\nBilly Long (R-MO)\r\nBlaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO)\r\nJason Smith (R-MO)\r\n\r\nMontana\r\nGreg Gianforte (R-MT)\r\n\r\nNebraska\r\nDon Bacon (R-NE)\r\nJeff Fortenberry (R-NE)\r\n\r\nNew Jersey\r\nRodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ)\r\nLeonard Lance (R-NJ)\r\nTom MacArthur (R-NJ)\r\nDonald Payne, Jr. (D-NJ)\r\nBonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ)\r\n\r\nNevada\r\nMark Amodei (R-NV)\r\n\r\nNew York\r\nYvette Clarke (D-NY)\r\nChris Collins (R-NY)\r\nDan Donovan (R-NY)\r\nAdriano Espaillat (D-NY)\r\nDwight Evans (D-NY)\r\nJohn Faso (R-NY)\r\nBrian Higgins (D-NY)\r\nHakeem Jeffries (D-NY)\r\nJohn Katko (R-NY)\r\nPeter King (R-NY)\r\nGregory Meeks (D-NY)\r\nElise Stefanik (R-NY)\r\nThomas Suozzi (D-NY)\r\nClaudia Tenney (R-NY)\r\nLee Zeldin (R-NY)\r\n\r\nNorth Carolina\r\nAlma Adams (D-NC)\r\nTed Budd (R-NC)\r\nG.K. 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