[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 209 (Tuesday, December 19, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S6062]
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                    NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR HIGHWAY

  Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Environment and Public Works be discharged from further 
consideration of S. 1478 and the Senate proceed to its immediate 
consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 1478) to designate United States Route 20 in the 
     States of Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, 
     Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and 
     Massachusetts as the ``National Medal of Honor Highway'', and 
     for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the 
Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. MERKLEY. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read 
a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered 
made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 1478) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 1478

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

     SECTION 1. NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR HIGHWAY.

       (a) Purpose.--The purposes of this Act are--
       (1) to honor all current and future Medal of Honor 
     recipients; and
       (2) to recognize the valor and service of those Medal of 
     Honor recipients.
       (b) Designation.--United States Route 20 in each of the 
     States of Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, 
     Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and 
     Massachusetts shall be known and designated as the ``National 
     Medal of Honor Highway''.
       (c) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
     document, paper, or other record of the United States to the 
     highway referred to in subsection (b) shall be deemed to be a 
     reference to the ``National Medal of Honor Highway''.

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