Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: Congressional Gold Medal

Congressional Gold Medal stories: 4 news summaries

 Obama Honors Senate 
 Trailblazer Brooke 

Republican senator wins Congress' highest honor

Oct 29, 09 3:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hundreds of people packed into the Capitol Rotunda yesterday to honor Edward Brooke, the Massachusetts politician who in 1967 became the first black senator since Reconstruction. Now 90, Brooke was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the legislature's highest honor. Sitting to his right was another trailblazer—President Obama, who had... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barack Obama • Senate • Senate Republicans • Congressional Gold Medal • African-Americans • Edward Brooke • Congressional Republicans

Myanmar
Activist Wins Congressional Gold Medal

Aung Suu Kyi tapped for top civilian award

Apr 25, 08 2:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Senate has voted overwhelmingly to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi, reports Reuters. Politicians praised her courage, and said the award was a gesture of solidarity with the oppressed Burmese people. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate remains under house arrest in Rangoon,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Myanmar • Burma • Aung San Suu Kyi • Rangoon • Congressional Gold Medal

China Livid at Dalai Lama Award

China tells American ambassador relations 'gravely undermined'

Oct 18, 07 8:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - China called the US ambassador on the carpet today, saying that the US had "gravely undermined relations" when President Bush yesterday presented the Dalai Lama with the Congressional Gold Medal. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman told Reuters that DC is "very aware of what steps it can take"... More »

MORE ABOUT:
China • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Congressional Gold Medal • George W. Bush

Bush Meets
Dalai Lama,
but Quietly

Low-profile get-together, US
award enrage China

Oct 16, 07 4:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush ignored China's fury today and met with the Dalai Lama, who will pick up a Congressional Gold Medal tomorrow, Reuters reports. "If the Dalai Lama can receive such an award, there must be no justice or good people in the world," said a Tibetan Communist Party... More »

MORE ABOUT:
China • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Congressional Gold Medal • George W. Bush

4 Stories


from our news partners