[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2177 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2177

To express the sense of the Congress that the President should award a 
      Presidential unit citation to the final crew of the U.S.S. 
             INDIANAPOLIS, which was sunk on July 30, 1945.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 16, 1998

  Mr. Inouye introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To express the sense of the Congress that the President should award a 
      Presidential unit citation to the final crew of the U.S.S. 
             INDIANAPOLIS, which was sunk on July 30, 1945.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PRESIDENTIAL UNIT CITATION FOR FINAL CREW OF THE U.S.S. 
              INDIANAPOLIS.

    (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress that the 
President should award a Presidential Unit Citation to the final crew 
of the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS (CA-35) in recognition of the courage and 
fortitude displayed by the members of that crew in the face of 
extraordinary hardship and adversity after their ship was torpedoed and 
sunk on July 30, 1945.
    (b) Waiver of Time Limitation.--A citation described in subsection 
(a) may be made without regard to any provision of law or regulation 
prescribing a time limitation that is otherwise applicable with respect 
to recommendation for, or the award of, such a citation.
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