Congress honors the 761st Tank Battalion, the Black soldiers Patton called his best
H.R. 1628 — 761st Tank Battalion Congressional Gold Medal Act · Filed by Gary Palmer (R-AL) · 288 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 26, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill authorizes Congress to award a gold medal to the 761st Tank Battalion, a historically significant all-Black armored unit that served with distinction in World War II. The medal will be designed and struck by the U.S. Mint, presented by the Speaker and Senate President pro tempore, and permanently housed at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, with duplicate bronze versions available for sale to cover costs.
Why we flagged it
This is a straightforward Congressional Gold Medal bill honoring a military unit's historical service and sacrifice. It performs exactly one function: authorize a medal, house it in a museum, and allow bronze duplicates to be sold. There is no policy mechanism, no regulatory change, and no hidden beneficiary.
Who it affects
This is a commemorative honor for a historically marginalized military unit whose contributions were long unrecognized. It corrects a historical record, affirms civic values around racial equality and military service, and carries no direct cost to ordinary citizens—the U.S. Mint's costs are offset by bronze medal sales.
Who stands to gain
- U.S. Mint (medal production and sales revenue)
Named in the bill
761st Tank Battalion, National Museum of African American History and Culture, U.S. Mint, House Speaker, Senate President pro tempore, General George S. Patton, Jackie Robinson
Where it stands
288 cosponsors: 189 Republicans, 98 Democrats, 1 Independents.
- Feb 26, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 26, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on House Administration and House Committee on Financial Services · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration…”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 2 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $0 in lobbying spend. A filing names 33 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Gary Palmer, the sponsor, reported $482,000 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Nebraska Hospital Association — $0 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 13, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jun 10, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 13, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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