Congress approves a Medal of Honor monument on the National Mall
H.R. 186 — Hershel Woody Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Location Act · Filed by Blake Moore (R-UT) · 8 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill lets the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation build a monument. It will stand on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The monument honors people who won the Medal of Honor. It is named after Hershel Woody Williams. He was a World War II Medal of Honor winner who died in 2022. The monument should be built near the Lincoln Memorial.
Who it affects
The National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation will build the monument. The public will see it on the National Mall. No money comes from taxpayers for this project.
One thing to notice
The bill changes a rule that normally stops monuments from being built on the National Mall. This rule change applies only to this one monument.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
8 cosponsors: 6 Republicans, 2 Democrats.
- Jan 3, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 3, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Natural Resources and Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources”
- Jan 21, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 414 - 0…”
- Jan 21, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
- Dec 9, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 4 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $140,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 8 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Blake Moore, who sponsored the bill, received $1,467,500 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- National Medal of Honor Museum — $100,000 in 2 reports
- City of Arlington — $40,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Medal of Honor — The highest award the U.S. military gives for bravery in combat.
- National Mall — A large open area in Washington, D.C., where many monuments and museums stand.
- monument — A statue or structure built to remember and honor a person or event.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (2,515 characters) on Jun 22, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 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 19, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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