Commission meets with with Speaker Boehner
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
House Speaker John Boehner meets members of the Jewish community on Tuesday, April 24, hosted by Joseph Davidsohn at Regency Hotel in NYC
Speaker of the US House of Representatives John Boehner, who brought the legislation awarding Swedish Diplomat Raoul Wallenberg with a Congressional Gold Medal in honor of the centennial of his birth to the floor of the House of Representatives was thanked by the Board of Governors of the Wallenberg Centennial Commission. The legislation now headed to US Senate was passed overwhelmingly in honor of the Days of Remembrance that was commemorated in the Rotunda of the US Capitol.
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The Commission works on a national campaign to highlight the incredible heroism exhibited by Raoul Wallenberg and to award him with a Congressional Gold Medal posthumously.
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