Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Education Assistance Act

H.R.1092
Introduced: 
February 15, 2007
110
First
June 5, 2007
Referred to House (sub)committee

50 cosponsors.

“A bill to authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to educational organizations to carry out educational programs about the Holocaust.” Appropriates $2m/year for five years for grants to 501 (c)(3) organizations to teach about the holocaust. Seeks to educate Americans so they won’t deny the holocaust, support research on and sensitize communities to it, and develop curriculum for schools on the subject.

See also: companion measure S. 963 on 3/22/07.

Sponsor/Cosponsors:

Gary Ackerman(D-)Robert Andrews(D-NJ)Shelly Berkley(D-NV)Howard Berman(D-CA)
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Gary Ackerman(D-)Robert Andrews(D-NJ)Shelly Berkley(D-NV)Howard Berman(D-CA)Dan Burton(R-IN)Chris Carney(D-PA)William Clay Jr(D-MO)Emanuel Cleaver(D-MO)Stephen Cohen(D-TN)Elijah Cummings(D-MD)Lincoln Davis(D-TN)Susan Davis(D-CA)John Dingell(D-MI)Keith Ellison(D-MN)Chaka Fattah(D-PA)Mike Ferguson(R-NJ)Bob Filner(D-CA)Luis Fortuno(R-)Barney Frank(D-MA)Charlie Gonzalez(D-TX)Raul Grijalva(D-AZ)Phillip Hare(D-IL)Alcee Hastings(D-FL)Brian Higgins(D-)Mike Honda(D-CA)Sheila Jackson-Lee(D-TX)Dale Kildee(D-MI)Mark Kirk(R-IL)Ron Klein(D-FL)Tom Lantos(D-CA)John Lewis(D-GA)Zoe Lofgren(D-CA)Stephen Lynch(D-MA)Carolyn McCarthy(D-)Jim McDermott(D-WA)Michael McNulty(D-)Mike Michaud(D-ME)Jerrold Nadler(D-NY)Edwin Perlmutter(D-CO)Ciro Rodriguez(D-TX)Ileana Ros-Lehtinen(R-FL)Peter Roskam(R-IL)Jan Schakowsky(D-IL)Allyson Schwartz(D-PA)David Scott(D-GA)Christopher Shays(R-CT)Betty Sue Sutton(D-OH)Ellen Tauscher(D-CA)John Tierney(D-MA)Chris Van Hollen(D-MD)Debbie Wasserman-Shultz(D-FL)Henry Waxman(D-CA)Anthony Weiner(D-)Robert Wexler(D-FL)

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Legislation Topics

Education Europe Holocaust Jews