[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 129 (Monday, July 31, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4625-S4626]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 737. Mr. JOHNSON (for himself, Ms. Baldwin, and Mr. Cornyn) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 
2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and 
for defense activities

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of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths 
for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie 
on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle G of title V, add the following:

     SEC. 573. AUTHORIZATION FOR AWARD OF THE MEDAL OF HONOR TO 
                   JAMES MEGELLAS FOR ACTS OF VALOR DURING BATTLE 
                   OF THE BULGE.

       (a) Waiver of Time Limitations.--Notwithstanding the time 
     limitations specified in section 3744 of title 10, United 
     States Code, or any other time limitation with respect to the 
     awarding of certain medals to persons who served in the Armed 
     Forces, the President may award the Medal of Honor under 
     section 3741 of such title to James Megellas, formerly of 
     Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and currently of Colleyville, Texas, 
     for the acts of valor during World War II described in 
     subsection (b).
       (b) Acts of Valor Described.--The acts of valor referred to 
     in subsection (a) are the actions of James Megellas on 
     January 28, 1945, in Herresbach, Belgium, during the Battle 
     of the Bulge when, as a first lieutenant in the 82d Airborne 
     Division, he led a surprise and devastating attack on a much 
     larger advancing enemy force, killing and capturing a large 
     number and causing others to flee, single-handedly destroying 
     an attacking German Mark V tank with two hand-held grenades, 
     and then leading his men in clearing and seizing Herresbach.
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